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The second edition benefited greatly from the continuing help and support provided by many who had assisted in the first edition. However, the authors are also grateful to the many individuals not involved in the first edition who provided advice and expertise for the second, especially in relation to the new offshore chapter. In particular the authors wish to acknowledge the contribution of Rose King to the discussion of offshore electric systems, based on her PhD thesis, and of Tim Camp to the discussion of offshore support structure loading. Thanks are also due to Bieshoy Awad for the drawings of electrical generator systems, Rebecca Barthelmie and Wolfgang Schlez for advice on offshore wake effects, Joe Phillips for his contribution to the offshore wind resource, Sven Eric Thor for provision of insights and illustrations from the Lillgrund wind farm, Marc Seidel for information on jacket structures, Jan Wienke for discussion of breaking wave loads, and Ben Hendricks for his input on turbine costs in relation to size.

In addition, several individuals took on the onerous task of scrutinising sections of the draft text. The authors are particularly grateful to Tim Camp for examining the sections on design loading, on‐ and offshore, Colin Morgan for providing useful comments on the sections dealing with support structures, and Graeme McCann for vetting sections on the extrapolation of extreme loads from simulations and monopile fatigue analysis in the frequency domain. Nevertheless, responsibility for any errors remains with the authors. (In this connection, thanks are due to those who have pointed out errors in the first edition.)

Tony Burton would also like to record his thanks to Martin Kuhn and Wim Bierbooms for providing copies of their PhD theses – entitled, respectively, ‘Dynamics and Design Optimisation of Offshore Wind Energy Conversion Systems’ and ‘Constrained Stochastic Simulation of Wind Gusts for Wind Turbine Design’ – both of which proved invaluable in the preparation of this work.