Objective
To provide the bulk of the electricity consumed by a planned aqua-culture installation and a municipal residence on the island of St-Nicolas, in West France, with wind power. Projects innovation is the use of 270 V DC in the DC Link of the installation together with battery storage as well as the use of the energy generated to supply the desalination plant.
Wind turbine installed in April 1988 and the desalination unit in August 1988. Initial results rather promising.
An AEROWATT 10 kW, 7 m diameter wind turbine is to feed a small battery supported grid through a rectifier and an inverter. The energy generated will be used by a municipal residence and the desalination units of the aqua-culture plant. The estimated annual energy consumption is estimated at 43,1 kWh of which 11 kWh will be used by the residence and the rest by the aquaculture plan (20.1 kWh for the water exchange and 12 kWh for desalination). As at the site of the installation the annual mean wind speed is 7,6 m/s, it is expected that the wind turbine will cover the needs with the aid of the 154 unit battery storage system, while the existing diesel generator will be used as back-up.
The estimated payback time of the project is about 7 years. The demonstration phase will show whether the estimation concerning the performance of the wind turbine and the whole system is correct.
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29170 FOUESNANT
France