- #BEST HOME WIND TURBINE 2016 PDF#
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While solar energy is generally the go-to eco-friendly option, wind power is a great solution for those living in areas with reliable wind speeds. Generating your own electricity is an easy way of cutting your electric bill in half. With living expenses on the rise, more homeowners are looking to cut costs. Thanks to Bob Hopman of Victron Energy for making me aware of this project and Sergei Melentjev of TUGE Energia for the information used in this blog, not forgetting TRITEC who supplied the Victron Energy products that made this installation possible.Alternative energy is quickly growing in interest for homeowners, so we’ve selected the 6 best home wind turbines currently available on the market. Also the PV array and wind turbine can sell energy back to the grid. The only difference with the project above compared to the general schematic below, is that they have a grid connection on the load side and during normal operation the load is not supplied through the Multiplus, but directly from the grid.
#BEST HOME WIND TURBINE 2016 PDF#
A larger size PDF of this schematic is here. Solar/Wind system schematicĪ general Multiplus system schematic with grid connected converter for solar and/or a wind-turbine looks like that shown below. In case of grid failure, the Multiplus provides a grid reference signal for our turbine, so it doesn’t detect that there is no grid and continues to work in normal operation”. “What we found really good about the Multiplus is that it provides grid synchronisation – the wind turbine we have there is an on-grid variant, so it needs to be connected to the grid to operate.
Speaking to Sergei this is what he had to say about the Victron Energy products used:
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This all allows 20-22 hours of autonomous operation, further backed up by a diesel generator (should the batteries become empty) which is started automatically by the Victron Multiplus system.
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This is achieved with a TUGE ® 20 kW wind turbine, 15 kW of TRITEC solar panels, Victron Multiplus inverters in a three-phase configuration with two strings which gives 18 kW in total plus 1,300 Ah of battery backup capacity. However, there is also a livestock farm nearby (where some of the nuns work) where reliable power is far more important.Īt this location it is in fact crucial that grid power is supplied with battery backed AC electricity. The convent though has no need for battery storage, as power outages don’t affect the lives of the inhabitants that much. The convent itself has two 20 kW wind turbines installed, with a further 20 kWp of solar planned at the end of the year. The headline image above shows a number of Multipluses integrated into a grid connected wind and solar system installed in the grounds of Pühtitsa Convent, which is an orthodox women’s convent in the eastern part of Estonia. Under the TUGE ® trademark, Sergei and his team have developed and manufactured a range of small 10 and 20 kW wind turbines. Simon Schmidt of TRITEC kindly put us in touch with Sergei Melentjev, the CTO of TUGE Energia who are based in Tallinn, Estonia. Solar it seems is not their only specialisation either as they have, together with TUGE Energia, integrated a number of Victron Multipluses into a grid connected TUGE ® wind turbine system. With over 5,000 solar projects every year they are obviously a valued Victron Energy customer. TRITEC is an international group of companies specialising in photovoltaic systems.
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