JL Renewables

Books

For any power plant to generate electricity, it needs fuel. For a wind power plant, that fuel is the wind.

Beginning of Wind Resource Assessment: A Practical Guide to Developing a Wind Project edited by Michael Brower, Chapter 1.

Lars Landberg is right that there are too many of us using the wind without understanding it.

From forward writen by Andrew Garrad in Meteorology for Wind Energy: An Introduction by Lars Landberg.

This book is intended to bridge the gap between formal engineering texts and more popularly accessible descriptions of electric power technology.

First line of preface of Electric Power Systems: A Concptual Introduction by Alexandra von Meier.

The re-emergence of the wind as a significant source of the world's energy must rank as one of the signifcant developmetns of the late 20^th century

First line of preface of Wind Energy Explained: Theory, Deisgn and Application by Manwell, McGowan and Rogers.

Data

ERA-5 Data

Hersbach, H., Bell, B., Berrisford, P., Hirahara, S., Horányi, A., Muñoz‐Sabater, J., Nicolas, J., Peubey, C., Radu, R., Schepers, D., Simmons, A., Soci, C., Abdalla, S., Abellan, X., Balsamo, G., Bechtold, P., Biavati, G., Bidlot, J., Bonavita, M., De Chiara, G., Dahlgren, P., Dee, D., Diamantakis, M., Dragani, R., Flemming, J., Forbes, R., Fuentes, M., Geer, A., Haimberger, L., Healy, S., Hogan, R.J., Hólm, E., Janisková, M., Keeley, S., Laloyaux, P., Lopez, P., Lupu, C., Radnoti, G., de Rosnay, P., Rozum, I., Vamborg, F., Villaume, S., Thépaut, J-N. (2017): Complete ERA5 from 1940: Fifth generation of ECMWF atmospheric reanalyses of the global climate. Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) Data Store (CDS). DOI: 10.24381/cds.143582cf (Accessed on Apr-20-2026)