Application of wind energy – the general trend and economic and environmental assessment

Abstract

     Today the wind energy, one of the important renewable energies, is widely used as the equipments are producing in mass, the installing technologies are completing and today the cost for construction of 1 wind energy station is only ¼ in comparison with 1986. The industrialized countries have developed strategies for using intensively the wind energy in the future and step by step substituting the traditional energy sources such as coal, hydropower, nuclear, ... In this paper the application of wind energy, the general trend in the world and the economic and environmental assessment are considered as well as some proposals for development of wind energy in Vietnam.