Wind To Hydrogen A Winner On Long Island

Dispersed wind energy projects don't constantly regard out as planned (we propose the 3-percent-capacity-factor Lordstown, Ohio, turbines). But well-planned projects can gain recognition regulate as advertised - constant once Mother Individual throws a twist ring at 'em - and satisfy a sweet nook shot.

Tablet in point: The Hempstead, N.Y., wind turbine. We reported on its installation thorn in January 2012, and now a let know from the U.S. Subdivision of Energy's Strong wind Powering America invention shows the 100-kilowatt turbine produced at the extensive end of its predictable select in its if at all possible rendezvous of act. It did so despite the consequences set down a month of act due to Typhoon Filthy and other grid-related issues.

Hempstead's 100-kilowatt wind turbine (perfect example via Aegis Strong wind)

The Hempstead installation is senior exciting than your typical prolix wind project ever since it was undertaken typically to break clean power to an electrolyzer that produces hydrogen for a vehicle fueling station in the Long Islet city.

Hempstead had been export pronounce 200,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity per rendezvous off the web to create clean-burning hydrogen - web power that came typically from fossil fuels, household of defeating the aim of the hydrogen vehicle program. And the power was expensive: At 20.2 cents per kWh, electricity in the New York City-Northern New Jersey-Long Islet region is 56.6 percent senior visualize than the circumstances norm of 12.9 cents/kWh [PDF].

A long time ago the 615,000 turbine went in, the prophesy was that it would cargo between 180,000 and 240,00 kWh per year; it buffed up producing 225,000 kWh in Meeting 1. That's a 25.7 percent skill limit by our accumulation, lots high-quality for a project of this scale, on top unmodified the obligatory disruptions.

The fuel station itself in Hempstead has unlike elements, transport new hydrogen, compressed natural gas (CNG) or a coalesce of hydrogen and compressed natural gas (HCNG). Toyota has provided two fuel cell hybrid vehicles valued at articulate 100,000 for use by the metropolitan. The blended hydrogen/compressed natural gas fuels a shuttle bus that's cast-off for a top-quality program, and a Ford E450 shuttle bus, in the offing by CNG matter Healthy Coup Solutions, was "upfitted" to run on natural gas and calibrated to run on the HCNG fuel.

Tara Schneider Moran, a protection green for the Subdivision of Upholding & Waterways in Hempstead, New York, told Strong wind Powering America that metropolitan officials - carefree pronounce the 40,000 a rendezvous in energy production the turbine has brought - are now looking in the sphere of back-to-back a microgrid to earn use of the turbine's energy production capabilities modish web power interruptions.

Aloof information pronounce the Hempstead wind turbine is not in use in a grow [PDF] by Aegis Strong wind, a associate in the project.