COE projection for the modular WARP{trademark} wind power system for wind farms and electric utility power transmission

Conference · Fri Sep 01 04:00:00 EDT 1995

OSTI ID:94278

Weisbrich, A L ^[1]; Ostrow, S L; Padalino, J ^[2]

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1. ENECO, West Simsbury, CT (United States)
2. Raytheon Engineers and Constructors, New York, NY (United States)

Wind power has emerged as an attractive alternative source of electricity for utilities. Turbine operating experience from wind farms has provided corroborating data of wind power potential for electric utility application. Now, a patented modular wind power technology, the Toroidal Accelerator Rotor Platform (TARP{trademark}) Windframe{trademark}, forms the basis for next generation megawatt scale wind farm and/or distributed wind power plants. When arranged in tall vertically clustered TARP{trademark} module stacks, such power plant units are designated Wind Amplified Rotor Platform (WARP{trademark}) Systems. While heavily building on proven technology, these systems are projected to surpass current technology windmills in terms of performance, user-friendly operation and ease of maintenance. In its unique generation and transmission configuration, the WARP{trademark}-GT System combines both electricity generation through wind energy conversion and electric power transmission. Furthermore, environmental benefits include dramatically less land requirement, architectural appearance, lower noise and EMI/TV interference, and virtual elimination of bird mortality potential. Cost-of-energy (COE) is projected to be from under $0.02/kWh to less than $0.05/kWh in good to moderate wind resource sites.

• OSTI ID: 94278
• Report Number(s): CONF-950414--
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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