A barrier to the development of the offshore wind resource along the US Atlantic coast is a
lack of quantitative measures of the risk to offshore wind turbines (OWTs) from hurricanes …

The US Department of Energy has estimated that if the United States is to generate 20% of
its electricity from wind, over 50 GW will be required from shallow offshore turbines …

Large numbers of wind farms have been and will be built in tropical cyclone zones. However
historical events of wind turbine failures in typhoon or hurricane activities have illuminated …

China has an ambitious target of developing 30GW offshore wind energy by 2020. A
spatially continuous resource economic and tropical cyclone risk model is built using …

Recently, a number of wind power structures in tropical cyclone zones are damaged by
typhoon. In order to study the failure mechanics and failure modes of wind power structure …

Frequent tropical cyclones pose great risks and obstacles to the development of offshore
wind farms in the coastal regions of China and other areas in the Pacific, where …

Rising fuel costs, increased energy consumption, and growing environmental concerns
have led mankind to look for alternate sources of energy apart from conventional fuels. One …

This paper concerns the application of design standards to the design of offshore wind
turbines, focusing on the United States. Offshore wind turbines (OWTs) are those wind …

The Philippines has good potential for wind energy utilization. However, it is also prone to
strong typhoons. Thus, wind turbines that will be erected in these areas maybe categorized …

The Philippines is essentially a typhoon-prone area which poses a threat to the structural
integrity of wind turbines. Due to this scenario, the authors classified the country's wind …