SMALL & DISTRIBUTED WIND SYSTEMS Texas/European Union Wind Energy Symposium 10/27/09 Vaughn Nelson Alternative Energy Institute, West Texas A&M University
Jan 17, 2016
SMALL & DISTRIBUTED WIND SYSTEMSTexas/European Union
Wind Energy Symposium
10/27/09
Vaughn Nelson
Alternative Energy Institute,
West Texas A&M University
WORLD WIND 2008number MW
Dist-Community >2,000 >500
Small (<= 100 kW) 600,000 200-250
Village, hybrid >1000 >50
Wind Diesel >250 >25
Telecomm # 500 2
Farm windmill 310,000 eq 155
SMALL WIND
World 2008 production, 39 MW 200 + manufacturers China 50, Europe 40New manufacturers (100 in last 2 years)China 50,000 units per year, 0.1-0.2 kW 40% exportedUS leading producer in the 0.5-50 kW range 17 MW in 2008; off-grid 3.7, on-grid 13.6See awea.org; small wind
COST OF ENERGY, RANGE
SYSTEM, kW $/kWh1 0.35-0.20
10 0.28-0.1850 0.23-0.15
100 0.16-0.13
Wind Class 2-4Capacity Factors 20-35%
Inner Mongolia100 W
ChinaTelecomm1 kW each
ChinaPV 100 W
Wind 200 W
USPV 50 W
Wind 300 W
ChicagoAerotecture1 kW units$8,000 each
Energy AdventuresAcquarium, CAAerovironment1 kW units
Subashi, China
Wind 20 kW, PV 4 kWDiesel 30 kVABatteries 1000 AhInverter 38 kW
Kotzebue, AK diesel 11.2 MW, wind 915 kW
9, AOC 50 kWNorthern Pow
100 kW
Ascension Island, diesel 3.8 MW, wind 2.7 MW
225 kW900 kW
AEI, www.windenergy.org, 806 651 2295
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