LOCATION
Canary Islands, Spain
SYSTEM TYPE
On-grid hybrid
WIND CAPACITY
E-5
SOLAR CAPACITY
10x 230 Wp panels
APPLICATION
Renewable energy research
Project Overview
The Canary Islands Institute of Technology researches renewable technologies. It installed a plant combining solar PV and small wind to study how the two work together.
The installation comprises a Ryse E-5 wind turbine and 10 solar panels of 230 Wp with inverters, at a site with an average annual wind speed of around 6.8 m/s at hub height. It is fully monitored, so the output of the solar plant and the wind turbine can be tracked at the same time.
After several months of operation, results show that at sites with a strong wind resource, small wind can generate more energy than solar while using far less ground space, and it can generate 24 hours a day. The result depends on wind conditions and does not apply everywhere.
Products in this project: E-5 5 kW wind turbine and hybrid wind and solar systems.
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