Wind Energy Integration in the Urban Environment WINEUR

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Wind Energy Integration in the Urban
EnvironmentWINEUR

• Katerina Syngellakis
• IT Power
• 24th April 2006
• Windy Network Kick-off meeting - Leeds

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Presentation Plan

• Brief introduction to IT Power
• All about the WINEUR project
• Partners, timescales, aims
• Research areas
• Publications so far
• Up coming events

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IT Power in brief!
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IT Power

• IT Power was established in 1981
• Consultancy providing world class expertise and
  services in sustainable energy
• Completed 800 projects in more than 100 countries
• UK base of 25 people Bristol and Basingstoke
  offices

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IT Power a global business

• Representation in
• India
• China
• Mongolia
• Australia
• Fiji
• Morocco
• Kenya
• Uganda
• South Africa
• USA
• Associates in many countries

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Examples of Projects - PV

• SEI Sustainable Energy Installations
• Over 30 completed projects
• Over 400 kW installed
• 24 kWp roof-mounted photovoltaics in Guildford
• 11 separate systems
• commissioned Sept 2003

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Examples of Projects - SWH

• Solar Water Heating
• IT Power has designed, installed and monitored
  SWH systems in Barry and Hengoed, Wales
• EC project
• Completed 2002

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Examples of Projects - Hydro

• Micro-hydro Windsor Castle - River Thames
• 200 kW scheme
• IT Power carried out project design, costing and
  organisation of planning and environmental
  permissions
• Planning application was granted in May 2005 to
  RWE nPower

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Examples of Projects - Small Wind

• Plymouth College of Higher Education

• Project management
• Installation of two 6kW Proven turbines
• August 2005

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Examples of Overseas Projects

• Pico-hydro (household level)
• Vietnam, Philippines, Ecuador

• PV for rural schools
• South Africa

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Examples of Overseas Projects

• PV-hybrids (village level)
• Mongolia
• China

www.itpower.co.uk
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Wind Energy Integration in the Urban
EnvironmentAll about the WINEUR project
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The WINEUR Project

• EC has target use of renewable energy to 12 by
  2010
• Intelligent Energy Europe ALTENER project
• European partners
• Axenne and ADEME (France)
• IT Power (UK)
• Horisun and The City of Amsterdam (The
  Netherlands)

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The WINEUR project

• Start January 2005
• Finish February 2007
• What?
• Technical and economic information on small wind
  turbines
• Investigating planning and social issues
• Workshops for local authorities
• Creation of a European Windy Cities network

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Small Wind Turbines

• Horizontal

• Vertical

• In between?

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Wind Energy on Buildings

• New area for wind energy
• Issues to consider
• Turbulence
• Wind speeds may be affected by buildings
• Tall buildings provide height advantage (no need
  for large towers)
• Vibrations
• Planning Issues
• Noise

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Wind Energy on Buildings

• Two main options
• 1. Small wind turbines mounted on top of
  buildings

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Wind Energy on Buildings

• Or
• 2. Fully building integrated wind energy systems

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Publications so far

• Wind Turbine catalogue
• Catalogue companion text
• Country summaries
• Techno-economic Report
• Grid connection Report
• Website www.urbanwind.org

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Workshops coming up

• Introduction to small wind turbines
• Types , Models and manufacturers
• Small wind turbines characteristics
• Choosing a site for urban wind turbines
• Economic aspects
• Technology installation costs cost per kW
  installed
• Factors affecting the economics of small wind
  turbines
• Potential future evolution of the costs
• Grid connection aspects
• Standards and regulations
• Metering arrangements
• DNO perceptions of microgeneration

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Thank you for your attention!Any questions?