Wind-solar Hybrid System Set for Release This Month

@anonymous. Not sure your comment is completely accountable. Let's address the 'substantial capacity' factor which you left out of your quote. Ampair may indeed have been one of the first to deliver a fully integrated wind-solar hybrid system, but their wind turbines have also had a great deal to be desired, especially in the built environment. One only has to look a the performance data results of the Warwick Wind Trials where manufacturers' claims were inflated and in-use capacity factors averaged around 0.8%. And sadly, performance data on the high rise buildings where the the Ampair 600 230 was used reported the poorest showing where energy output from predicted measured wind speed vs. energy output measured was concerned, and in-use capacity factors that were reported at 1.49%-1.66%. Not to mention, And yes, there were also other factors involved in these poor showing e.g. siting, installation.

NB: I just took another quick look at the Ampair WWT data, so I could substantiate my claim on this note.

Truthfully, I could care less who was 'first.' I'm just glad to see more than one player in the market, so more early adopter systems like these can become a bigger part of the hybrid renewable energy systems opportunity mix.

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Hi #8:

LOL... I got news for you. If you were a US citizen you still would not be able to reach them unless of course you were worth a whole bunch of millions of dollars....

.....Bill

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Go figure Kimberly. It sound like a practical approach to me. The only really significant improvement I would make on this system would be to move to the Vertical Axis Wind Turbine Design. They seem to operate better at lower wind speeds and and the design eliminates the need for a pivotal base for the prop design to stay in the wind stream as wind direction shifts.

@Anonymous Comment 5. Unfathomable to my why this hybrid renewable energy system would be considered stupid.

Indeed, we won't need fossil fuels in the same capacity as we use them today. And, utilities will transform from a demand side provider to a support side supplier--where homes and buildings will generate their own electricity and systems like this can be a part of the solution, that is, as soon as we can overcome the storage conundrum. Because fossil fuels have unparalleled energy density, hybrid RE systems will need to play a bigger part of the picture to bring this to a reality. Indeed, renewable energy becoming the norm will either be due to price or unless there is a HUGE shock e.g. financial, natural, etc. Bottom line: hybrid RE systems only make common sense.

If I had an improvement to offer Southwest on its' design it would be to add a pivoting generator platform as they have with the solar tracking system. Not the simplest thing to do; but far from difficult either. Let the genny follow the Wind as the PV module follows the Sun.

Hi:

Skystream has an interesting history. We have a few right around where I live. I call them the wrongway 3.7 because they spend allot of the time pointing 180 degrees away from where they should be pointing. In short, they don't turn into the wind as easily as they should, but they are of course a downwind machine by design.
One of the engineers that used to work for them has a post about the product and them on the Internet. Interesting reading but nothing of surprise really... business over engineering but what else is new....

.....Bill

A Hybrid wind/solar system of 12.5kWh has been offered by a Duluth, MN company for the last 4-5 years. Although the end user would have to add the solar side. That combination may have been the first smaller system on the market.

This system if applied with the new wind generator placement to utilize the wind currents of neighboring wind generators could be quite productive as the production figures vary from some 50 to 70 percent increased production using the correct placements.