Wind energy is a well proven and cost-effective technology and expected to be a promising technology in which industry responds to the environmental targets—so becoming an important source of power generation in years to come. This paper focuses on the current status of wind energy and more advanced subjects needed to understand the current technology in the wind power engineering.

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