Wind Energy Handbook. Michael Barton Graham

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      About the Authors

Tony Burton: After an early career in long‐span bridge design and construction, Tony Burton joined the Wind Energy Group (WEG) in 1982 to coordinate Phase IIB of the Offshore Wind Energy Assessment for the UK Department of Energy. This was a collaborative project involving British Aerospace, GEC, and the CEGB, which had the task of producing an outline design and costing of a 100 m diameter wind turbine in a large offshore array. Following this, he worked on the design development for the UK prototype 3 MW turbine, before moving to Orkney to supervise its construction and commissioning. In 1992, he moved to Wales to be site engineer for the construction and operation of one of the first UK wind farms at Cemmaes, which consisted of 24 300 kW WWEG turbines. He worked as a consultant in wind turbine foundation design from 1995 until 2012, when he joined GL Garrad Hassan to work on the design of offshore support structures until retirement in 2017.

      Nick Jenkins completed a PhD in wind‐diesel systems at Imperial College London and is now Professor of Renewable Energy at Cardiff University. His career has included 14 years of industrial experience, of which 5 years were in developing countries. His final position in industry was as a projects director for Wind Energy Group, a developer and manufacturer of wind turbines. While at the university, he has developed teaching and research activities in electrical power engineering and renewable energy. He is a Distinguished Member of CIGRE and a Fellow of the IET, IEEE, Royal Academy of Engineering, and the Learned Society of Wales. From 2009–2011 he was the Shimizu Visiting Professor to the Atmosphere and Energy Program at Stanford University.

      Ervin Bossanyi: After graduating in theoretical physics and completing a PhD in energy economics at Cambridge University, Ervin Bossanyi has been working in wind energy since 1978. He was a Research Fellow at Reading University and then Rutherford Appleton Laboratory before moving into industry in 1986, where he worked on advanced control methods for the Wind Energy Group. Since 1994, he has been with international consultants Garrad Hassan, now DNV GL, where he is senior principal researcher in renewables. He received the 2014 Scientific Award of the European Academy of Wind Energy for outstanding contributions to the development of wind energy and has had an honorary visiting professorship at Bristol University since 2016.

David Sharpe has worked in the aircraft industry for the British Aircraft Corporation as a structural engineer. From 1969 to 1995, he was a Senior Lecturer in aeronautical engineering at Kingston Polytechnic and at Queen Mary College, University of London. Between 1996 and 2003, he was at Loughborough University as a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Renewable Energy Systems Technology. David is a member of the Royal Aeronautical Society and was a member of the British Wind Energy Association at its inception. He has been active in wind turbine aerodynamics research since 1976. Currently, he is a Visiting Professor in the Future Wind and Marine Technology Innovation Centre at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow.

      Michael Graham graduated in mathematics followed by part 2 of the engineering degree from Cambridge University. He has a PhD in aeronautics from Imperial College London, where he has been Professor of Unsteady Aerodynamics since 1990 and was Head of the Department of Aeronautics from 1999 to 2003. He has worked in wind energy research since 1990, coordinating the EU Joule II project ROTOW and as a partner in a number of other EU and EPSRC research programmes dealing with aerodynamics of wind turbine rotors and latterly their wakes. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, the RAeS, and RINA.