History of wind power storage development

What is the history of wind power?

Today, modern wind turbines, along with solar photovoltaics, are the principal source of new electricity generating capacity. We briefly trace the development of modern wind turbines from the late 19th century to the present in Europe and North America. Much has been written about the history of wind power in both the academic and popular press.

How long has wind been used as an energy source?

Wind has probably been used as an energy source for more than 1500 years. In times when other energy sources were unknown or scarce, wind energy was a very successful energy source for industrial and economic development. Wind energy became a marginal source when inexpensive, easily accessible and abundant energy sources became available.

Why is wind energy storage important?

As wind machines depend on the wind as an energy source and as wind is intermittent, unreliable, unsteady, and unpredictable, it requires the development of innovative energy storage technologies.

When did wind turbine design start?

And we show that much of what we know today about wind turbine design was known by the 1930s and certainly well known by the late 1950s. This work is divided into two parts: the first part takes up the development from the first electricity producing wind turbines through to the 1960s and a second part on development from the 1970s onward.

Where did wind energy come from?

Remembering war time scarcity, several countries, and the recently created United Nations, launched programs looking at a role for wind energy. From the early 1950s to the late 1960s, programs in Germany, France, and Denmark dominated wind energy development (See Table 4). Table 4. Wind-electric turbines during the post war period.

When was offshore wind energy invented?

The potential of offshore was recognised at the very beginning of the modern wind energy era. In 1973, Prof. Bill Heronemus, University of Massachusetts, USA, proposed what was then a very large floating foundation wind farm of 990 MW consisting of 165 turbines.