Urban wind energy exploitation systems: Behaviour under multidirectional flow conditions—Opportunities and challenges

Francisco Toja-Silva, Antonio Colmenar-Santos and Manuel Castro-Gil

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2013, vol. 24, issue C, 364-378

Abstract: The growth of the world energy demand, the limited fossil fuel reserves and the increasing greenhouse gas emissions require improvements in energy-generation technologies. Specifically, urban wind energy is a source with great potential that is currently being wasted.

Keywords: Wind energy; Urban wind power; Wind turbines; Wind turbulence; VAWT (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2013.03.052

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