Book Review: Offshore Wind Power

This book, on a very timely and interesting subject, presents a detailed overview of the current state-of-the-art of offshore wind power systems. As noted in the text, the European dominance in offshore wind farms is expected to continue in the future, with most manufacturing being in Europe. This early lead implies that European exports and expertise also become significant. In this light, European offshore wind energy experts have written the book’s thirteen chapters from universities, research laboratories, and industry. Each chapter contributes to the overall theme of solving the technical problems facing offshore wind energy by combining the technologies of wind engineering and ocean/offshore engineering in a unified approach. As shown below, the thirteen chapters are analytically based and each chapter generally contains a significant number of important references on their particular subject: