This volume collects together the 1999 ASME Wind Energy Symposium technical papers.

This volume contains technical papers from the 2000 ASME Wind Energy Symposium.

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The 1999 European Wind Energy Conference and Exhibition was organized to review progress, and present and discuss the wind energy business, technology and science for the future. The Proceedings contain a selection of over 300 papers from the conference. They represent a significant update to the understanding of this increasingly important field of energy generation and cover a full range of topics.