Eastern Wind Power, Inc. has designed a mobile wind energy technology for disaster relief services, rural electrification micro-grid application, rural communications ground stations, and for military defense field operations. It would establish or feed into a local grid network, assisting in filling the capacity needs of a centralized grid for various base needs, or function as a stand-alone system for field and rural power needs.

We have created an efficient, quiet and reliable vertical axis wind turbine of commercial capacity, but of small enough scale to power a small community or key service within a community. Clean water and basic lighting are two direct ways of providing basic human comforts to areas unreachable by conventional power distribution systems.

Our turbine can be used to power deep well pumps to power cisterns throughout the day and night, creating a “head” to run a small community water system or irrigate a farm. There can be battery charging stations for charging motorcycle type batteries for home use allowing:  students to run lap tops; houses to run LED lights and communication equipment; rural farms to light structures and power equipment.

We have adapted our Sky Farm™ 50 kW vertical axis wind turbine to fit in, and assemble out of a 20’ ISO shipping container, using it as the turbine’s “foundation”.

•  The unit is sized to be transported by ship and then by either a mid-sized tractor or helicopter.

•  The mobile unit can feed a field micro-grid with the power  as is required, be it 48 volt battery storage for reserve power or live time 220/480 Volt – 3 phase @ 60 or 50 Hz. feeds.

•  The unit can serve as a self-contained power station, including on-board battery power storage systems, communications centers, grid distribution nodes, and mobile battery charging station.

•  The turbine blades will be hinged at their connection joints and will open like a tripod, with the blades locking in the open rigid position. The turbine tower would be transported in the same container – being (3) 19’ sections designed for field assembly.

The unit is simple to install in the field as the hydraulics are adapted from a typical fire truck design to lift the turbine in place at the height appropriate for its utility and security. The trailer will have retractable outriggers for stability on any slope or terrain, locking the system in-place, thus freeing up the delivery vehicle for other transport duties.

June 3-7 2012

Linda Haar – Eastern Wind Power, and Razvan Panati – Siemens Industry, setting up exhibit.

Andreas Hartinger – Siemens Industry and Jonathan Haar – Eastern Wind Power. Lucy, EWP’s mascot, joins the show.

Siemens Industry and Eastern Wind Power jointly exhibit Eastern Wind Power’s Sky Farm™ 50 kW VAWT and Siemens inverter system at the AWEA 2012 National Wind Power Conference in Atlanta Georgi

Siemens’ Drive Technologies Division developed this technology for their motion to grid distributed power generation and microgrid systems in collaboration with EWP’s prototype development of their 50 kW VAWT

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June 12, 2012

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by AOL Energy in June 14, 2012

http://energy.aol.com/2012/06/14/boston-high-rises-could-be-turbine-towers/#page1?icid=apb1

Chicago is known as the Windy City, but in truth, Boston is breezier. Beantown has the highest average wind speed of any major city in the United States, at 12.4 mph.

Does it make you wonder how much energy might be generated if wind turbines were placed atop some of its tall buildings? It makes the folks at Eastern Wind Power wonder. A maker of vertical-axis wind turbines, EWP has embarked on a project to gather wind data from 10 high-rises in Boston. It hopes to show that its turbines could be significant power producers for big-city buildings

EWP so far has Web-based weather stations from Onset Computer Corporation on two buildings – the Equity Office Properties building at 60 State Street and the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary – to measure wind speed, wind gust and wind direction. The plan is to collect data from eight more high-rises in downtown Boston by 2013.

Exactly how much wind is available is a hugely important factor in wind power. That's because the power in the wind is proportional to the cube of its speed. So the amount of power produced rises exponentially as the wind speed increases. According to the Department of Energy, if your site has an annual average wind speed of about 5.6 meters per second – or about 12.6 mph, very close to Boston's average – it has twice the energy available as a site with a 10 mph average.

This takes on added importance with small systems because, to be honest, they are lilliputian compared to wind's big boys. The mammoth horizontal turbines spinning away in Texas and California and elsewhere can pump out 2 megawatts or more of power. EWP has a 50-kilowatt (kW) vertical-axis turbine.

But we are talking about windy Boston here – and wind speed climbs substantially with elevation. The 60 State Street high-rise isn't the tallest in Boston, but soaring 509-feet heavenward it pokes well into the strong winds aloft (Mass Eye and Ear appears to be quite a bit shorter, so it will be interesting to see what the wind study turns up there.)

EWP says a collection of 10 of its 50-kW Sky Farm turbines could trim a 500,000-square-foot high-rise's power needs by 10 percent. That estimate is based on on wind studies it did on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Green Building in Cambridge (where EWP is based). There, the company said, a single Sky Farm would generate about 45,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity per year – enough to power six to eight homes.

"One turbine can power a building's electrical emergency/backup, eliminating the need for a diesel generator," said Jonathan Haar, president of EWP. "It can also produce more usable energy than a 10,000-square-foot solar photovoltaic array."

The smaller footprint of vertical-axis turbines is a point the company is emphasizing in its marketing; Vice President Linda Haar alluded to it in an interview with EarthTechling in November 2011 when explaining why the company was aiming to sell its products to high-rises. And, she noted, "this is a market that's really important because urban areas demand the most energy, but also have the least options, as far as green energy."

EWP has partnered with Siemens to develop on improving its generator and inverter system. It erected a prototype at the Martha's Vineyard Airport in 2010 and that turbine is now grid-connected and producing power for the airport.

by William Pentland, December 16th, 2011

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http://www.forbes.com/sites/williampentland/2011/12/16/siemens-digs-deeper-into-distributed-power/ 

Siemens, the German industrial giant, ispartnering with Boston, MA-based EasternWind Power on a pilot project exploringseveral small to micro-scale power generationsystems.The pilot project will take place over the courseof about six months at Martha’s VineyardAirport in Edgartown, Mass.“This is an extremely fast moving businesssegment, and our Drive Technologies Divisionis well-positioned to provide complete drivetrain solutions for OEMs targetingdecentralized power generation,” said RazvanPanaitescu, business development manager of the distributed powergeneration and microgrids sector for Siemens Drive Technologies Division.Eastern Wind Power has pioneered the so-called “Sky Farm” strategy forbundling a few dozen small wind-power turbines on the roofs of commercialor residential high-rise buildings to produce on-site distributed power inhigh-density urban areas.The pilot will focus on integrating a Siemens 55 kW permanent magnet-generator and energy-conversion system with a prototype of Eastern WindPower’sVertical Axis Wind Turbine (VAWT) – where the main rotor shaft isset vertically and the main components are located at the base of the turbine.Eastern Wind Power’s VAWT can reportedly generate about 45,000 kWh ofelectricity annually – equal to the electricity needed to power about sevenresidences for 12 months – when sited on a high-rise structure.

“Our 50kW VAWT can handle turbulent urban winds, runs virtually silently,does not harm avian life, and can be easily mounted and connected to a powergrid,” said Jonathan Haar, President of Eastern Wind Power. “A 10-unit SkyFarm 50 kW will generate enough electrical energy to supply about 10% of atypical 500,000 square-foot high-rise building’s electrical power needs.”The turbine is interconnected with the electric-power grid in the serviceterritory of NSTAR, the largest Mass.-based investor-owned electric and gasutility.