This site is located in Ocean Gate, NJ. The tower was placed on municipal land with the approval and the help of the town council. 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 in the township. The tower used for this site stands erected at 30 meters.
Pictures Taken During Tower Installation
Referbished Base Used for Ocean Gate Tower
Tower Base of the Ocean Gate Site
View From Bottom of the Tower
Final Picture of the Constructed Tower
Data Collected from the Site
Data Collection Start Date: 04/21/07
Latest Update of Data on this Site: 01/02/08
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
80 Meter Tower
1 kW System:
472
793
1,213
10 kW System:
2,763
4,669
7,248
50 kW System:
19,779
34,113
53,395
100 kW System:
19,625
38,398
64,677
250 kW System:
74,222
129,235
201,950
600 kW System:
206,288
380,041
612,467
1.5 MW System:
361,154
710,752
1,208,423
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.
