Raymond Byrne of CREDIT will present a short overview of the small wind market in Ireland on Wednesday April 25th at the 1st International Small Wind Association of Testers Conference. The conference takes place in Ithaca, New York, and is hosted by Intertek. This is the third in a series of international small and medium wind conferences that CREDIT has presented at in two months. Most recently, we spoke about the importance of good information at the International Small and Medium Wind Conference in Glasgow. In March, we presented a summary of the IEA Wind Task 27 at Husum in Germany.
CREDIT in Ithaca
April 24, 2012
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CREDIT at ISMWC 2012 in Glasgow
April 21, 2012Niall McMahon of CREDIT spoke at the International Small and Medium Wind Conference 2012 in Glasgow about the critical importance of good information for small- and medium-wind. CREDIT is working to build a platform for supporting turbine design and standards. Raymond Byrne of CREDIT also attended. Please get in touch with follow-on comments or questions. We will post more information about our work soon.
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CREDIT at the 3rd World Summit of Small Wind in Husum
March 6, 2012Raymond Byrne will present at the 3rd World Summit of Small Wind in Husum on March 16th. Ray is representing the IEA Wind Task 27 committee and will be speaking about consumer labels for small wind turbines. Husum is well known for its yearly wind energy conferences. The World Summit of Small Wind forms part of the New Energy Husum programme.
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Small Wind Standards and Development
January 16, 2012Niall McMahon and Raymond Byrne sit on the Irish Wind Energy Association’s Small and Medium Wind Committee (ISMWC).
Raymond Byrne is Ireland’s national representative to relevant International Energy Agency (IEA) and International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) standards committees. These are the IEA’s Wind Task 27 group and the group responsible for drafting the third edition of the international IEC 61400-2 standard. Wind Task 27 is concerned with ensuring that consumer labels for small wind turbines display accurate information; IEC 61400-2 is the most important international standard for the design of small wind turbines.
Our standards development work forms part of CREDIT’s small and medium wind research effort.
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Small Wind Turbine Test Platform
November 9, 2011A 1.5 kW test wind turbine is located on-campus at DkIT. Its intended purpose is to provide a real test-platform for the prototype overspeed device. Read the rest of this entry »
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Flow-Battery System
November 9, 2011CREDIT 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.
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Remote Monitoring and Control of the Campus Wind Turbine
October 19, 2011Complementing our flow-battery research, a SCADA system is under development. The system will extract and display data from the wind turbine’s control system and the power meters in the campus electrical compound.
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Small Wind Turbine Design Platform
October 19, 2011Straightforward mathematical and numerical techniques can be used to build useful models of small- and medium-sized wind turbines. At present, we are working on a platform that can be used to underpin small- and medium-sized wind turbine design and standards development. Read the rest of this entry »
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