Introduction to Wind Energy and Micro Wind Turbine

Exhausting fossil resources and increasing demand for renewable energy resources, has led to the number of researches on different forms of energy resources. Wind energy is one of the form of renewable energy resources which is being adapted worldwide to fulfil the energy demands. Even if it is one of the major forms of energy used there is limited literature on micro-wind turbine technology. Micro wind turbines are generally characterized as small-scale turbines designed for use by individuals rather than for large scale energy production. The power output obtained from micro-wind turbine is much less than the small and large-scale wind turbines. But micro wind turbines can be found very useful for the areas where grid connections cannot be available. Hence it was decided to study this form of wind turbine. This paper gives the resources and application of wind energy as per the generation, classification of wind turbines, limitations of large wind turbines, introduction to Micro wind turbine, its characteristics. It also explains few structures of Micro wind turbines designed and studied.