This site is located on top of a building located in Jersey City, NJ. The anemometer was constructed through the Rutgers University Anemometer Loan Program. The anemometer used for this site stands 20 meters off of the ground level.
Data Collected from the Site
Data Collection Start Date: 11/30/06
Latest Update of Data on this Site: 10/22/07
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:
700
1,239
2,340
10 kW System:
4,098
7,327
14,405
50 kW System:
29,438
53,928
104,558
100 kW System:
30,601
63,143
136,600
250 kW System:
111,374
204,401
398,782
600 kW System:
315,479
612,357
1,225,837
1.5 MW System:
562,401
1,173,471
2,556,759
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.
