This site is located in the middle of a 126 acre organic farm located in Salem, NJ which is approximately 6 miles from the Deleware Bay. The tower was placed in an area with as little disturbance from any trees or buildings as possible and also the least possible disturbance to the everyday activities of the farm as possible. The tower used for this site stands erected at 20 meters.
Pictures Taken During Tower Installation
The gin pole that was used to lift the tower
The constructed 20 meter tower
Base plate located at the bottom of the tower
One of the four anchors that is used to keep the tower erect
Final Constructed 20 meter tower located at Neptune Farm in Salem, NJ
Data Collected from the Site
Data Collection Start Date: 11/04/05
Latest Update of Data on this Site: 11/04/06
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:
865
993
1,191
10 kW System:
4,517
5,273
6,454
50 kW System:
37,014
42,541
51,116
100 kW System:
39,355
46,688
58,465
1.5 MW System:
743,900
882,450
1,101,950
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.
