wind study

I am sure many of you have wondered exactly how much wind your property has.  In my travels and siting expeditions for both small and large wind I hear it all too often, “the wind blows like crazy here”, but knowing how much wind your site actually receives can be dramatically different from what the wind maps or your common sense tells you.  So, by hiring a professional company like SoleVento that has the experience and expertise in collecting and analyzing wind data, you  ensure that the wind turbine you are considering will work as expected.  Our team will come out to your site, install a custom tower, anemometer, and remote data logger, and we will collect data for six months to a year.  While that data is being collected, we also collect other local wind data to compare to your site’s data.  We will then compile all of this data and create an accurate wind profile for your site.  At the end of the feasibility study period we present you with a hard copy of your study with detailed analysis of your site i.e., the wind resource, the optimum operating height of the turbine, and system recommendations.  Our goal is to give our clients an accurate picture of how much a given system will produce over the lifetime of that system, as well as accurate numbers for your system’s ROI (return on investment), carbon offset created, and Renewable Energy Credits generated.  The residential/commercial feasibility study can usually be completed  for about $3000.

Another form of the feasibility study is the wind/solar farm development option.  We will do a feasibility study to determine all of the steps associated with developing your property, as well as determine if your property receives enough wind to make a project feasible.  We are currently working on two utility scale projects.  If you want to find out if your property is adequate for a utility scale project just give us a call or send us an email and we will begin the conversation.  The cost of the utility scale study is charged on an hourly consulting basis.  At the end of study and planning you will have the information you need to either develop the project or sell the project.  The feasibility study provides definitive proof to investors that your site will pay their investment dollars back.

Thanks for reading,

Walker