Wind turbine

[Highlander]

(6 June 2013, 22:24)Grumpy Grandpa Wrote:

(6 June 2013, 21:56)Highlander Wrote: .... but we feel vulnerable,.. if the mains power goes off, then so does our solar panels

I'm not able to offer you anything helpful HL but I do have a question. Please excuse the Dumbo routine but my VERY large, floppy grey ears just fell out of my hat... "mains power goes off, then so does our solar panels"? Is that something to do with the grid tie-in deal?

Tarrel is right GG,.. there is two ways in which you can work your solar panels, you either store the power of the sun into your own batteries and use that power when you require it,.. this is ok, completly off grid, but the problem with this is that on days when the weather is not the best for solar, you do not have so much power stored as you might wish you had,.... solar doesn't need sunlight to work, but at the same time misty dull Highland weather is not good

The other way is to link in your panels to the national grid, the grid pays you for every unit you produce for them in our case 43 pence per unit, because we got in early before the tariffs went down,... this means for instance last year we got back from the grid £400 more than we paid for our years electric bill

the problem here is that we are linked to the grid, so when there is a power cut we stop producing also

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(6 June 2013, 23:05)NorthernRaider Wrote: HL as you know I have built or been part of teams that built many WFs in the UK. first before you spend money have you managed to obtain the air spped averages for the height of turbine you want. if the air movement of a constant type motion or is it erratic and multi directional. Often smaller sites with erratic wind pattterns is better off with a vertical axis turbine ( they look like an egg wisk)

Getting this wind read out will be the first things we do,... but I am fairly certain we will be fine with it,... and we will be very certain before we pay out for anything,... errr in doors is very much like that,..