Alex Maurício Araújo

TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide a review on wind turbine bearing condition monitoring techniques such as acoustic measurement, electrical effects monitoring, power quality, temperature monitoring, wear debris analysis and vibration analysis.

TL;DR: In this paper, a literature review of wind turbine control is presented dealing with the main wind energy control methods, which can be used as a starting point for new researches on WT control that can be decisive to energetic sustainability.

TL;DR: A comprehensive review of the up-to-date efforts and advances in the research of prognostic techniques and remaining useful life estimation methods applied to the critical components of wind turbines and analyse its advantages, capabilities and limitations can be found in this article.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors make a critical review of the state-of-the-art approaches to understand and assess the complementarity between grid-connected solar and wind power systems through the analysis of different methodologies and locations.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a review of the increasing contribution of wind power to the Brazilian electric matrix and an analysis of the main impact on technical, political and social aspects, taking into account the state-of-art of the wind power technology, the wind resource potential and the evolution of installed capacity in the country.