Wind energy research in NERC KSC RAS for 50 years

A brief history of the founding of the Energy Department of the Kola Branch of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, which studied prospects for the use of wind energy in the conditions of the North, is given. A wind power test site on the coast of the Barents Sea in the village of Dalniye Zelentsy, where long-term tests of domestic wind turbines were carried out, is described. The main parameters of wind in the coastal areas of the Western sector of the Arctic are presented. The main directions of the possible use of wind energy are considered: operation of wind farms as part of the electrical power system, joint operation of wind turbines with diesel power plants and boiler units in order to save fuel, production of environmentally friendly fuel — hydrogen by the use of wind energy.The long-term experience of cooperation with foreign countries is presented.