Section XI References and Contact Information

1. Section XIReferences and Contact Information

2. Other Web Resources Related to Wind Energy • American Wind Energy Association, AWEA: www.awea.org • Small wind information resource: http://archive.awea.org/smallwind/ • The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (operated by the US Dept. of Energy, DOE): http://www.nrel.gov/ • Sandia National Laboratory (operated by Sandia Corporation, a Lockheed Martin company, for the U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration): http://www.sandia.gov/Renewable_Energy/renewable.htm • DOE: http://www.energy.gov/ • Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI): http://my.epri.com/ • Education resources for kids from Nebraska Public Power District (NPPD): http://www.nppd.com/EnergyEducation/ • NPPD Energy facilities including Cooper Nuclear plant and Ainsworth Wind Farm: http://www.nppd.com/about%5Fus/energy%5Ffacilities/

3. Selected Bibliography Texts and Links • B.J. Baliga, Fundamentals of Power Semiconductor Devices, Springer, New York, 2008, ISBN 978-0-387-47313-0 • Mohan, Undeland, and Robbins, Power Electronics, 3rd ed., John Wiley & Sons, New York, 2003. ISBN 0-471-22693-9 • F. Blaabjerg and Z. Chen, Power Electronics for Modern Wind Turbines, Morgan and Claypool, 2006, ISBN 1-59829-032-0 • J.F. Manwell, J.G. McGowan, and A.L. Rogers, Wind Energy Explained: Theory, Design, and Application, 2nd ed., John Wiley and Sons, 2009, ISBN 978-0-47001-500-1 • Wind Energy Information: http://www.nrel.gov/wind/ • Wind Industry; American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) http://www.awea.org/ • JEDI download link: http://www.nrel.gov/analysis/jedi/download.html

4. For Information • Jerry Hudgins Department of Electrical Engineering University of Nebraska – Lincoln 209N Scott Engineering Building PO Box 880511 Lincoln, NE 68588-0511 Ph: 402-472-3771 email: jhudgins2@unl.edu

5. Exercise 18 1). Whoever designed this course is: • Clearly brilliant. • Fantastic. • Owed a beer. • Should be invited over for Sunday dinner.