Wind Power, Revised Edition: Renewable Energy for Home, Farm, and Business
by Paul Gipe
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Author: Paul GipeEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2004-09-30
ISBN: 1931498601
Number of pages: 512
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing Company
Book Reviews of Wind Power, Revised Edition: Renewable Energy for Home, Farm, and Business
Book Review: An almost complete book on wind power
Summary: 5 Stars
Certainly in this book is covered in detail all that one must know about wind power, except evidently grid-tie systems without batteries as the chapter about it, Interconnection with the Utility, has little technical information about this new topic in which the Inverter and its Anti-Islanding requisite to protect the Utility maintenance personnel during outages, makes the wind generator useless when it is more needed, as the inverter must shut down the whole system during that time when the grid is off.
In fact most books about wind power has little to say about this topic either, they usually are about systems with batteries; even excellent references as the must-read books by Hugh Piggott, A Wind Turbine Recipe Book and How to Build a Wind Turbine, and The Renewable Energy Handbook by William H. Kemp they do not touch this topic for which I was looking for a solution because in my particular project it is a real need: during outages I have much wind.
Because of a long and kind conversation with a Power One engineer, I think I have found a solution for this problem, that I pretend to test in the very near future in my own place, and that I want to share with the wind power community through this great opportunity offered by Amazon; the solution is to install a similar controller(without the bridge rectifier)with dump loads on the AC side of the inverter, i.e., 240Vac, as that one used on the controller on the AC side of the wind generator to prevent over voltages when there is too much wind. Additionally we must have a small power plant(instead of batteries) with good frequency and voltages to simulate the grid during outages but connected manually, with a corresponding disconnect switch for the grid, a so called transfer switch.
I really would appreciate any comment about this problem!!!
Edgar
Summary of Wind Power, Revised Edition: Renewable Energy for Home, Farm, and Business
Wind energy today is a booming worldwide industry. The technology has truly come of age, with better, more reliable machinery and a greater understanding of how and where wind power makes sense--from the independent homestead to a grid-connected utility-wide perspective. Heightened concerns about our environment mean that this resurgence of interest in wind--a natural and widespread power source--is here to stay. Wind Power is the completely revised and expanded edition of Paul Gipe's definitive 1993 book, Wind Power for Home and Business. In addition to expanded sections on gauging wind resources and siting wind turbines, this edition includes new examples and case studies of successful wind systems, international sources for new and used equipment, and hundreds of color photographs and illustrations.Weather Books
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