A convective wind resource model for Solar Vortex power generation

Amy M. Moore; Michael O. Rodgers; Steven P. French

doi:10.1080/15435075.2020.1722130

A convective wind resource model for Solar Vortex power generation

Amy M. Moore, Michael O. Rodgers, Steven P. French

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Abstract

Climate change has increased the need for clean, nonpolluting energy sources to decrease dependence on fossil fuels. Alternative energy sources, mainly solar and horizontal wind, have been the primary focus for producing clean energy. New technologies are being developed, such as the Solar Vortex (SoV), which was developed at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and relies on a vertical wind resource to generate power. The National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL) has resource models representing solar and horizontal wind resources across the 48 United States. This research developed a vertical wind resource model that is comparable in resolution to NREL’s solar and horizontal wind resource models and uses the model for estimating power output for the SoV. This model complements NREL’s existing resource models and supports the deployment of an additional clean energy generation technology. The model was applied to Mesa, Arizona to find feasible sites for a small-scale vertical wind farm.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	208-218
Number of pages	11
Journal	International Journal of Green Energy
Volume	17
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/15435075.2020.1722130
State	Published - Feb 19 2020

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The work performed for this manuscript was funded by the Department of Energy through the Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy. Notice: This manuscript has been authored by UT-Battelle, LLC, under contract DE-AC05-00OR22725 with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). The U.S. government retains and the publisher, by accepting the article for publication, acknowledges that the U.S. government retains a nonexclusive, paid-up, irrevocable, worldwide license to publish or reproduce the published form of this manuscript, or allow others to do so, for U.S. government purposes. DOE will provide public access to these results of federally sponsored research in accordance with the DOE Public Access Plan ( http://energy.gov/downloads/doe-public-access-plan ). This work was supported by the Advanced Research Projects Agency?Energy. The work performed for this manuscript was funded by the Department of Energy through the Advanced Research Projects Agency?Energy.

Keywords

Convective wind resource
geographic information systems
Solar Vortex
sustainable energy
vertical axis wind turbine

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