Collected Links and Literature of the Chapter „Planning“
Gesammelte Links und Literatur zum Kapitel „Planung“
listed by WWEA

Overview

• BWE German Wind Energy Association e.V. Planung
  http://www.wind-energie.de/de/themen/mensch-umwelt/planung/

• University of Paderborn, Germany
  http://www-eev.uni-paderborn.de/forschung/windenergie/windparkplanung

• Windpower Project Development – Report by Tore Wizelius, Gotland University

• Windpower Project Development – Training Course at Gotland University

Wind Resource Assessment / Windpotentialmessung

• NREL, USA, Wind Resource Assessment Handbook (2,7 MB)
  http://www.nrel.gov/docs/legosti/fy97/22223.pdf

• Solar and Wind Energy Resource Assessment Project SWERA, a UNEP Project (English, Spanish and Portuguese)
  http://swera.unep.net/

• Wind Resource Links (Link collection from Wind Service Holland)
  http://home.wxs.nl/~windsh/windexen.html

• Wind Map Germany
  http://www.ilr.tu-berlin.de/WKA/wind_rsc/germany.rsc.html

• Energy Resource Atlas in the United States
  http://rredc.nrel.gov/wind/pubs/atlas/chp1.html

• Canadian Wind Energy Atlas
  http://windatlas.ca/en/index.php

• Wind Resources in India
  http://www.inwea.org/windenergy.html

• NREL, USA
  http://www.rsvp.nrel.gov/wind_resources.html
  Renewables for Sustainable Village Power – China, Dominican Republic, Mexico, Mongolia, Phillipines

• Wind Map of Victoria, Australia
  http://www.sustainable-energy.vic.gov.au/renewable_energy/resources/wind/wind_resources.asp

Websites of companies (Selection)

• Ammonit, Germany (Measurement)  
  http://www.ammonit.de

• Windtest Grevenbroich Gmbh, Germany (Measurement)  
  http://www.windtest-nrw.de

• DEWI Deutsches Windenergie-Institut, Germany  
  http://www.dewi.de/

Planning, Siting and Design / Planung

• Paul Gipes Website wind-works.org
  http://www.wind-works.org/

• GTZ Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit, Germany  
  www.gtz.de/wind

• BWE German Wind Energy Association e.V. Planung
  http://www.wind-energie.de/de/themen/mensch-umwelt/planung/

• Iowa Energy Center Energy Output Calculator, USA
  http://www.energy.iastate.edu/renewable/wind/as-index.html

• IWR hub for renewable energies, planning companies
  http://www.iwr.de/wind/kontakt/plan.html

Companies - Planning and Project Developers (selection)

• Garrad Hassan and Partners
  www.garradhassan.com
  www.garradhassan.com/products/ghwindfarmer/index.php

• WPD AG  
  www.wpd.de

• Roaring 40s, Asia Pacific
  www.roaring40s.com.au
  Wind farm projects in Asia and Pacific

• CUBE Engineering  
  www.cube-engineering.com

• GEO mbh  
  http://www.geo-mbh.de/home.htm

Repowering

• German Ministry for Environment / Bundesumweltministerium  
  http://www.erneuerbare-energien.de/inhalt/36356/

• BWE German Wind Energy Association – special topic Repowering
  http://www.wind-energie.de/de/themen/repowering/
  http://www.wind-energie.de/en/topics/repowering/

• Repowering – Proceedings CD-ROM by WWEA and BWE
  Potentials and framework conditions in Germany and Denmark and new markets for second-hand wind turbines (Proceedings of a BWE/WWEAWorkshop at HusumWind Fair 2005)
  More information and order form: http://www.wwindea.org/

• World Wind Energy Association: Repowering Working Group
  http://www.wwindea.org/home/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=22&Itemid=53

Planning Guidelines and Resources / Planungsrichtlinien und Planungshilfen

• Sustainability Guidelines of World Wind Energy Association
  http://www.wwindea.org/home/images/stories/pdfs/wwea_05_11-10.pdf

• Information concerning Wind Energy and Environment / Windenergie und Umwelt
  

  • Landscape, Sound, Shadow, Birds, wildlife

  • Landschaft, Schall, Schatten, Vögel, Wildtiere

Wind Energy and Environment (I) Landscape/Landschaft

• BWE German Wind Energy Association Landscape
  http://www.wind-energie.de/index.php?id=247

Wind Energy and Environment (II) Sound/Schall

• Paul Gipe: Article concerning noise and small wind turbines
  http://www.wind-works.org/articles/noiseswt.html

• Tauernwindpark, Austria, with noise graph
  http://www.tauernwind.com/windenergie/windenergie_umwe.htm#

• Suisse eole – Swiss Wind Energy Association
  http://www.suisse-eole.ch/docsetmedia-qetr-1132-d.htm
  Fragen und Antworten zu Windenergie und Nachbarschaft / Umwelt

• Vector Windenergy Inc., Canada (collection of sound reports)
  http://vectorwindenergy.com/Sound%20Level%20Resources.htm

Wind Energy and Environment (III) Shadow/Schatten

• Tauernwindpark, Austria with shadow graph
  http://www.tauernwind.com/windpark/windpark_uschatt.htm

Wind Energy and Environment (IV) Birds/Vögel

• BWE German Wind Energy Association Birds/Vogelschutz
  http://www.wind-energie.de/de/themen/mensch-umwelt/vogelschutz/
  http://www.wind-energie.de/en/topics/protection-of-birds/

• Suisse eole – Swiss Wind Energy Association: and French
  http://www.suisse-eole.ch/docsetmedia-qetr-1138-d.htm

Wind Energy and Environment (V) Wildlife/Wildtiere

• BWE German Wind Energy Association Wildlife/Wildtiere
  http://www.wind-energie.de/de/themen/mensch-umwelt/wild-und-nutztiere/

NEW TOPIC (without sub-chapter): Project Financing

• Windustry Wind Project Calculator
  http://www.windustry.com/calculator/default.htm

• Canadian Wind Energy Association CanWEA
  http://www.smallwindenergy.ca/en/SmallWindAndYou/Planning/BallparkCost.html
  Canadian finance calculator

• Neue Energie: “Money, money” article about project financing in the U.S., 2006
  http://www.neueenergie.net/index.php?id=1122

• Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau KfW  
  www.kfw.de

• REEEP Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership
  http://www.reeep.org/
  North America, Latin America and the Caribbean, Europe, Africa, South Asia and China, Southeast Asia and Pacific.

• UNDP United Nations Development Program / GEF
  http://www.undp.org/gef/undp-gef_grant_opportunities/undp-gef_grant_opportunities.html

Examples for financing wind energy

• Grameen Bank, Bangladesh (microcredits)
  http://www.grameen-info.org/

• Exportinitiative, Germany  
  http://www.exportinitiative.de/

• Windustry – Community Based Wind – Incentives
  http://www.windustry.com/illinois/incentives.htm
  Illinois, USA

Books / Bücher

English books

• Gasch, Robert / Twele, Jochen: WIND POWER PLANTS. Fundamentals, Design, Construction and Operation, Berlin: 2002.
  http://www.fachbuch-erneuerbare-energien.de/gasch_engl.htm

• Heier, Siegfried: Grid Integration of Wind Energy Conversion Systems, London: Wiley, 2006.
  http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470868996.html

• Rehfeldt, Knud: Analysis about the Potential of Repowering in Germany (2005 report) in: WWEA (Ed.), Wind Energy International 2005/2006, 201-203
  Order form of the book is available at: http://www.wwindea.org/

• wind-works.org (Paul Gipe´s Webpage)
  www.wind-works.org
  Many book reviews and articles.

• Wizelius, Tore: Developing Wind Power Projects, Theory and Practice, London: Earthscan 2007
  http://shop.earthscan.co.uk/ProductDetails/mcs/productID/734

Deutsche Bücher / German books

• Gasch, Robert / Twele, Jochen: Windkraftanlagen,Grundlagen, Entwurf, Planung und Betrieb, Deutsche aktualisierte Auflage, 2005
  http://www.teubner.de/index.php;do=show/site=t/book_id=1738/sid=19

• Hau, Erich.: Windkraftanlagen. Grundlagen, Technik, Einsatz, Wirtschaftlichkeit.
  Berlin : Springer, 2002, 3. vollständig neubearb. Auflage
  

• Heier, Siegfried: Windkraftanlagen. Systemauslegung, Integration und Regelung. Wiesbaden: Teubner, 4., überarbeitete und aktualisierte Auflage 2005
  http://www.teubner.de/index.php;do=show/sid=19/site=t/book_id=5334

• Heier, Siegfried: Nutzung der Windenergie, Köln 2000 (Aktualisierung 2007 geplant)
  http://www.fachbuch-erneuerbare-energien.de/heierbine.htm