Siting Wind Turbines to Minimize Raptor Collisions at Sand Hill Repowering Project, Altamont Pass Wind Resource Area

Bird Collision Risk, Birds, Wildlife

Year Published: 2018  Map-based collision hazard models were prepared as a set of tools to help guide the careful siting of proposed new wind turbines as part of the repowering effort at Sand Hill in the eastern Alameda County portion of the Altamont Pass Wind Resource Area (APWRA). Similar collision hazard models were prepared for…

Wind Harvester Model 3.0 Prototype

Prototypes, Vertical Axis Wind Turbines, Wind Harvesters

Author: Kevin WolfPublication: Wind Harvest InternationalYear Published: 2015 The most significant changes incorporated into the Wind Harvester 3.0 were cantilevering the basic H-type rotor, dramatically lowering its solidity, and moving from induction generation to power converters. The work produced by Wind Harvest European engineers Charliaos (Haris) Kotsarinis (aerodynamic modeling), Ionut Munteanu (cantilevered mechanical engineering), and Pablo Paz…