ABSTRACT
The first thing that became apparent as I started to address this task is that there is a very extensive world-wide activity in this area. At the EWEA's 1986 Conference "EWEC 86 "(part sponsored by the CEC) there were some 20 papers on wind/diesel R & D. Two recent workshops on the subject took place in May and June 1987, at Dartmouth College near Boston, USA and at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) near Oxford, UK, respectively. (The RAL workshop report which contains 15 papers is now available from BWEA). I have drawn on the papers from these 3 events and on the experience of my own research unit in preparing this report.
