This site is located just outside of the Bayshore Discovery Project in Port Norris, NJ which is located directly next to the bay area yielding some intense winds at times. The anemometer and wind vane were attached to a preexisting tower at the highest possible height for the group to reach using the ladder truck provided by the local fire company which ended up being about 16 meters.
Pictures Taken During Tower Installation
Installation of the support bracket at the maximum possible height (16 meters)
Another picture of installation also showing the Port Norris Fire Company ladder truck used for installation
HOBO Data Logger being used to collect data at the Bayshore site
Close up picture of the support bracket, anemometer, and wind vane setup
Differently angled picture of the support bracket
More distant picture of the bracket setup
Picture of final tower with attached bracket setup
Data Collected from the Site
Data Collection Start Date: 11/03/05
Latest Update of Data on this Site: 11/03/06
Data Collection Complete
Graph of the Wind Speed Data Collected Thus Far
Wind Rose Graph
The northern wind direction is 90°. The strength of the wind represented by the graph can show the direction of the flow of the wind. The frequency of the wind is shown as different colors which correspond to the bar scale on the side of the graph.
Power output in kWh's with different size systems over the one year period
30 Meter Tower
50 Meter Tower
100 Meter Tower
1 kW System:
1,541
2,011
2,714
10 kW System:
8,561
11,422
16,031
50 kW System:
66,333
87,485
119,568
100 kW System:
80,238
113,685
176,447
1.5 MW System:
1,487,650
2,098,650
2,283,100
The average wind velocity over each hour was taken and then this was compared to the spreadsheets available from the turbine manufacturers website, this can be found in the links given here: Bergey's 1kW, 10 kW and 50 kW Turbine , Northern Power's 100 kW Turbine, and GE's 1.5 MW Turbine . This power yielded was taken over an hour long period, thus yielding the kWh's produced and when these kWh outputs are summed the total power that would be produced be the system is given over that time. When new data is collected the sum of the kWh's on that data is then simply added to the previous total to find the new value of kWh's produced.
