TY - GEN
T1 - Wind Turbines in the Built Environment: Summary of a Technical Report
T2 - NREL (National Renewable Energy Laboratory)
AU - Tinnesand, Heidi
AU - Fields, Michael
AU - Oteri, Frank
AU - Preus, Robert
AU - Baring-Gould, Edward
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - Built-environment wind turbine (BEWT) projects are wind energy projects that are constructed on, in, or near buildings. These projects present an opportunity for distributed, low-carbon generation combined with highly visible statements on sustainability, but the BEWT niche of the wind industry is still developing and is relatively less mature than the utility-scale wind or conventional ground-based distributed wind sectors. The findings presented in this presentation cannot be extended to wind energy deployments in general because of the large difference in application and technology maturity. This presentation summarizes the results of a report investigating the current state of the BEWT industry by reviewing available literature on BEWT projects as well as interviewing project owners on their experiences deploying and operating the technology. The authors generated a series of case studies that outlines the pertinent project details, project outcomes, and lessons learned.
AB - Built-environment wind turbine (BEWT) projects are wind energy projects that are constructed on, in, or near buildings. These projects present an opportunity for distributed, low-carbon generation combined with highly visible statements on sustainability, but the BEWT niche of the wind industry is still developing and is relatively less mature than the utility-scale wind or conventional ground-based distributed wind sectors. The findings presented in this presentation cannot be extended to wind energy deployments in general because of the large difference in application and technology maturity. This presentation summarizes the results of a report investigating the current state of the BEWT industry by reviewing available literature on BEWT projects as well as interviewing project owners on their experiences deploying and operating the technology. The authors generated a series of case studies that outlines the pertinent project details, project outcomes, and lessons learned.
KW - built-environment wind turbines
KW - distributed wind energy
KW - distributed wind resource assessment
KW - rooftop mounted
KW - wind energy
M3 - Presentation
T3 - Presented as part of a WINDExchange Webinar, 28 September 2016
ER -