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This chapter gives the background, motivation, and organization of this work. The state-of-the-art for wind power generation, development of power electronic technology, as well as some emerging challenges for the next generation wind power converters are presented. Then the objectives and structure of this book are outlined.
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Ma, K. (2015). Introduction. In: Power Electronics for the Next Generation Wind Turbine System. Research Topics in Wind Energy, vol 5. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21248-7_1
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