Friday, October 21, 2011

New Wind Turbine

Check out the City's new wind turbine - it should be in operation before the end of the month, generating electricity to power our sewer plant! 

Update: Installation is complete and they are finalizing the internet connection for the on-board diagnostics. 24-hour monitoring is part of the maintenance agreement, so any problems or faults can be identified immediately and repaired. The turbine will auto-stop in the meantime. We also have a monitoring computer at City Hall, so we can track power output, wind speed, direction, net electrical metering, and maintenance faults.

It is a Northwind 100 turbine built by Northern Power Systems and installed by Midwest Underground Technologies, Inc. It is the exact same model turbine that MUTI has at their facility west of Champaign.