Kongiganak Wind Farm Picture by Puvurnaq Power Company Josh Craft Assistant Wind Program Manager Alaska Energy Authority (907)

Wind Modeling for Integrated Energy Projects... Where’s the Data? Wind Data Electrical Data Thermal Load Diesel Consumption

Wind Modeling for Integrated Energy Projects... Wind Data Minimum one year of data collected from a meteorological (met) tower. Includes wind speed and direction at 20 and 30 meters and temperature data at three meters. Data collected every two seconds with the average, minimum, maximum and std. deviation stored every 10 minutes.

Wind Modeling for Integrated Energy Projects... Electrical Data For feasibility level modeling one hour electrical load data is required. Measure one year of power plant data during the met tower study and correlate with the wind data. Use monthly PCE data to determine average load and scale a data set from another equivalent community. Use the AEA Village Load Calculator to construct a data set.

Wind Modeling for Integrated Energy Projects... Thermal Data Yearly, preferably monthly diesel consumption for individual buildings being considered for secondary heat loads. Using heating degree days daily usage can be calculated from this data. Flow measurements and temperature data from waste heat recovery loops. As average penetrations increase and secondary heat loads become further integrated higher resolution data will be needed.

Wind Modeling for Integrated Energy Projects... Project Sizing and Economics Projects that are too small won’t take advantage of economies of scale. Projects that are too small won’t take advantage of economies of scale. Projects that are too large may have excess power that never gets used. Projects that are too large may have excess power that never gets used.

Wind Modeling for Integrated Energy Projects... Data Driven Decisions How much wind should be installed? Which wind turbine should I be using?

Wind Modeling for Integrated Energy Projects... Data Driven Decisions Community Drivers Preferences Access Systemic Drivers Average, Minimum and Peak Loads Genset Size Wind Resource Assessment Economic Drivers Funding Size and complexity vs. additional production

Wind Modeling for Integrated Energy Projects... HOMER Modeling

Wind Modeling for Integrated Energy Projects... HOMER Modeling Grew out of NREL’s Village Power Program in A publically available version came out in The commercial product became available in AEA continues to work with HOMER Energy to improve the software. HOMER is a feasibility level modeling tool. Higher level modeling will be performed at the design stage.

Wind Modeling for Integrated Energy Projects... Economic Modeling Excess wind energy used for heat is not valued as high as wind for electricity. AEA uses ISER fuel projections to estimate lifetime savings. Please feel free to contact the AEA Wind Program with additional questions on how AEA models the economics of Renewable Energy Projects.

Wind Modeling for Integrated Energy Projects... St. George Wind-Diesel Project

Wind Modeling for Integrated Energy Projects... St. George Wind-Diesel Project The Wind Resource Assessment based on a 13 month met tower study found St. George to be a Class 7 wind regime with average wind speed of 9.5 m/s (21 mph) and turbulence intensity of.1. Electrical data was disjointed. A mixture of PCE data, power plant monitoring and estimates. This resulted in a range of average loads ranging from kW. No thermal data gathered.

Wind Modeling for Integrated Energy Projects... Turbine and Genset Selection The remanufactured 95 kW Windmatic 17s was recommended due to its nameplate capacity, robust, basic design, availability of inverter based controller and its relatively inexpensive price tag. The RPSU program was planning to install four John Deer 6090 gensets. As part of the modeling the use of a single John Deere 4045 was investigated in place of one of the 6090s.

Wind Modeling for Integrated Energy Projects... Closing Thoughts Pick the low hanging fruit first Erecting a wind turbine is the “easy” part Each project must be looked at holistically There is no “one size fits all” wind-diesel system A lower penetration system which works consistently will out perform a higher penetration system which seldom works

Wind Modeling for Integrated Energy Projects... That’s all folks Josh Craft Asst. Wind Program Manager Alaska Energy Authority (907) Thank you for your time