This site is located in on the grounds of the nuclear power plant located within Salem, NJ. Wind speed data was taken for a period of one year by the operators of the plant and given to this project in order to obtain a better approximation of the wind speed distribution throughout Southern New Jersey.
Pictures of Salem-Hope Creek Power Plant
Picture of cooling tower from power plant
Overview picture of power plant site
Data Collected from the Site
Data Collection Start Date: 4/1/05
Final Data on this Site: 3/31/06
Data Collection Complete
Graph of the Wind Speed Data Collected
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:
1,793
2,027
2,365
10 kW System:
10,025
11,481
13,587
50 kW System:
77,060
87,707
102,908
100 kW System:
95,646
111,378
134,774
1.5 MW System:
1,772,450
2,066,800
2,503,700
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.
