Warwick Wind Trial - urbanwind Wind Trial Results.pdf · Warwick Wind Trial Results to Date David Hailes and Helen Brown 11 th. December 2007. ... 875 1790 0 200 400 600 800 1000

Warwick Wind Trial Results to Date

David Hailes and Helen Brown

11th

December 2007

December 2007 Warwick Wind Trial 01926 312159 www.encraft.co.uk

6b Park St Leamington

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Agenda

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Objectives of the trial•

Overview of the sites

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Instrumentation and Analysis•

How useful is NOABL and MCS

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How useful are power curves•

Patterns between sites

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Energy consumption•

Conclusions

Objectives



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To explore the market realities facing this technology

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To understand community and customer reactions

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To see how predictable technical performance is for customers

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Typical customer starting points:

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NOABL

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No wind monitoring

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Basic property geometry

Aim to complement and inform academic and industry trials

Instrumentation

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PEET Kit

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Meteo

Anemometer

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Novus

Logbox

DA

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ME162 Watt meter

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BRE Kit

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NRG Anemometer

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Pace Scientific XR5-SE

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ME162 Watt meter



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Sites



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What could you expect to generate?

Average Energy Generated per Day (Wh)

63

63

67

91

174

187

211

225

251

253

385

394

875

875

1790

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22nd August 2007

April (2007)

October (2005)

3rd July 2007

29th January 2007

30th January 2007

20th March 2007

7th October 2007

7th October 2007

7th October 2007

7th October 2007

1st November2007

7th October 2007

7th October 2007

24th September 2007

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Average energy generated per day (Wh)



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How useful is NOABL and the Microgeneration Installation Standard MIS3003?

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Very early days•

NOABL data corrected for the month using a 20 year average taken from International Station Meteorological Climate Summary, Version 4.0

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Above correction corrected again using MIS3003



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Measured Wind Speeds For a suburban location



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Measured Wind Speeds vs

Corrected

NOABL by month For a suburban location



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MIS3003

Corrections For a suburban location



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Difficult to categorise in MCS



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Corrected

NOABL by month For a Dense Urban location



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MIS3003

Corrections For a Dense Urban location



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How useful are Power Curves

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All power curves are supplied by manufacturer or installer literature.

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Can they be used to predict output?

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Are there variations between manufacturers?



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Energy Calculations Using Power Curve



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Wind Speed Distribution

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Can we spot any patterns?



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Can we spot any patterns? Suburban



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Can we spot any patterns? High Rise



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How much energy do they consume?

Imported energy as proportion of exported energy

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0.00

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0.00

0.00

0.00

0.00

0.00

0.25

0.34

0.38

0.89

1.27

1.50

4.33

0.00 0.50 1.00 1.50 2.00 2.50 3.00 3.50 4.00 4.50 5.00

3rd July 2007

7th October 2007

7th October 2007

7th October 2007

7th October 2007

7th October 2007

24th September 2007

7th October 2007

22nd August 2007

October (2006)

30th January 2007

29th January 2007

April (2007)

20th March 2007

October (2005)

1st November2007

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Ratio



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Conclusions

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MIS3003 offers a helpful insight on low sites

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Quality of power curves vary by manufacturer

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There are patterns emerging

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More data required to build up a more complete picture

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Contact David Hailes [email protected]



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