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Naval Station Newport wind resource assessment : a study prepared in partnership with the Environmental Protection Agency for the RE-Powering America's Land Initiative : siting renewable energy on potentially contaminated land and mine sites / Robi Robichaud, Jason Fields, and Joseph Owen Roberts.
- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Robichaud, Robi
- Fields, M. Jason (Michael Jason), author.
- Roberts, Joseph Owen, author.
- Series:
- NREL/TP ; 6A20-52801.
- Technical report NREL/TP ; 6A20-52801
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Naval Station Newport (R.I.).
- Wind power plants.
- Wind power.
- Renewable energy sources.
- Renewable Energy.
- wind power plants.
- wind power.
- Rhode Island--Naval Station Newport.
- Medical Subjects:
- Renewable Energy.
- Genre:
- technical reports.
- Technical reports
- Technical reports.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 62 pages) : color illustrations, color maps.
- Other Title:
- Study prepared in partnership with the Environmental Protection Agency for the RE-Powering America's Land Initiative
- Siting renewable energy on potentially contaminated land and mine sites
- Place of Publication:
- Golden, Colo. : National Renewable Energy Laboratory, [2012]
- Summary:
- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) are collaborating on a number of projects to evaluate the feasibility of siting renewable energy (RE) technologies on these potentially contaminated sites. This report focuses on the wind resource assessment campaign at Naval Station (NAVSTA) Newport in Newport, Rhode Island. Wind data was collected from 60-meter meteorological (met) towers at Coddington Point (Site #9202) and at Tank Farm #4 (Site #9203). The data collected provided an effective dataset for comparative analysis of wind speed, turbulence intensity, and energy production at the two sites. Table ES-1 shows the summary results of annual wind speeds, energy production for a generic 1.5 MW wind turbine, and capacity factor. Overall, the wind resource at the selected sites at NAVSTA Newport is sufficient for a wind turbine project. There are a number of other factors to consider before turbine selection is undertaken, including cost, availability, constructability, and transportability. There are also a number of other factors still to be explored as the parameters of this project become more clearly defined, including financing, National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA), constructability, subsoil/foundations, impact on neighbors, and transportation planning and logistics.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Location
- Wind resource assessment campaign
- Site characterization
- Wind in Rhode Island
- Instrumentation and equipment
- Data recovery and validation
- Wind resource assessment summary
- MiniSODAR data
- Long-term data adjustment
- Energy production estimates
- Conclusions and recommendation
- Appendix A. Met tower sensors
- Appendix B. Turbulence analysis
- Appendix C. Additional site information.
- Notes:
- Title from title screen (viewed on Apr. 10, 2011).
- "February 2012."
- Includes footnotes with bibliographical references.
- OCLC:
- 785151300
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