On-Campus Vestas V52, 850 kW Wind Turbine

February 15, 2012

DkIT Vestas V52Overview

(You can find news about the campus wind turbine here.)

In August 2005 we installed the world’s first large commercial wind turbine on a college campus. The turbine initially provided about half of Dundalk IT’s electricity needs; nowadays, with the expansion of the institute, it provides approximately a third of the electricity used on-campus. It is the first urban turbine in Ireland; we hope that many Irish towns will begin to address their energy needs in this way, at a local level.

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Flow-Battery System

November 9, 2011

CREDIT operates a large flow-battery electricity storage system. This is coupled to the campus Vestas V52 wind turbine. We believe this to be the first installation of its kind in Europe, i.e. a flow-battery with a large-scale stand-alone wind turbine. The battery was installed primarily as a research platform.

CREDIT's ZBB Flow Battery.

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Larry Staudt on the Campus Wind Turbine

February 4, 2009

Larry Staudt discusses the campus wind turbine (2009).


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