This site is located in Alloway, NJ. The tower was placed on the top of the landfill in order to maximize the elevation of the tower and hopefully the potential for a wind turbine as well. The tower used for this site stands erected at 20 meters.
Pictures Taken During Tower Installation
Anchors Installed by the SCUA
View of the Tower From on the Landfill
View of the Tower From the Bottom of the Landfill
Data Collected from the Site
Data Collection Start Date: 04/28/07
Latest Update of Data on this Site: 11/13/07
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:
375
438
539
10 kW System:
2,194
2,567
3,156
50 kW System:
15,621
18,377
22,802
100 kW System:
15,109
18,671
24,456
250 kW System:
58,541
69,349
86,491
600 kW System:
160,908
194,513
248,459
1.5 MW System:
277,881
343,077
449,986
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.
