BREAMLEA WIND GENERATOR FILE SUMMARY AT SUBURBIA /pub/users/alternative-energy/wind 01README TXT this file _GO_BACK HTM an FTP page with a Web link! whatever will they think of next? PROGRES1 TXT 2,709 08/03/95 maintenance group progress report #1 PROGRES2 TXT 5,280 15/04/95 " " " " #2 MEDIA1 TXT 4,266 18/04/95 "Enviro.Group joins Electricity Industry" REGULAT1 TXT 2,535 21/04/95 letter to Regulator-General, Victoria REGULAT2 TXT 9,630 13/06/95 ditto- licence,wheeling issues METERING TXT 2,490 18/07/95 letter to Powercor about meter/logger interface PROGRES3 TXT 6,365 19/08/95 maintenance group progress report #3 WORKSHOP TXT 7,178 26/08/95 paper published for Wind Energy Workshop at Monash Uni September 1995 WORKSHOP GIF 7,603 26/08/95 graph: wind/electricity use/temperature relationships in Victoria/Melbourne N_WYATT TXT 2,956 16/09/95 how practical is the electricity "free- market"? (VicMinerals&EnergyDraftDoc) ECOPOWER TXT 2,388 23/09/95 embedded generation has benefits for all ! WEB_PG1 TXT 4,439 16/10/95 text of ATA's web page (Windpower in Aust.) PROGRES4 TXT 4,395 17/10/95 now for the good news ! MONEY TXT 1,892 25/10/95 what if we have to sell it ? MEDIA2 TXT 2,370 16/11/95 will the media ever pick up on this story? LOGGER TXT 3,219 26/11/95 DataTaker data logger schedule (Breamlea) FULSTORY ZIP 47,676 14/02/96 all .TXT files from this directory DIAGRAM GIF cross-sectional diagram of the innards HISTORY GIF bar-graph of average monthly power output 1987 to 1996 mmmyy GIF power output profile for the month and year indicated SOLD! TXT interim arrangement to stabilise ATA's finances: transfer of ownership to long-time ATA member (guess who) mmmyyDBF ZIP database files (zipped) with wind and energy data for the month and year specified by "mmmyy". The data fields are described below: chardate date in character format dd/mm/yyyy time time in character format hh:mm:ss ALWAYS EASTERN STANDARD av_ws wind run in half hour expressed as average windspeed m/sec min_ws lowest windspeed in the past 30 minutes (5 sec samples) max_ws highest windspeed in the past 30 minutes (5 sec samples) dirn direction of wind (degrees from north) Note that Bass Strait is about 600 metres due SOUTH of this site. kwh kilowatt-hours (multipy by 2 for average power in kW) low_mins minutes in low speed mode (8 pole winding of generator) high_mins minutes in high speed mode (6 pole winding of generator) switches generator switching events in past 30 minutes datetime character string YYYYMMDDHHMM of date and time. Note that time 00:00:00 on 1 October 1995 becomes "199509302400" i.e. 2400hrs on 30 September 1995 ! no_shadow windspeed corrected for the fact that the anemometer is "in the shadow" of the wind generator in wind from the north-to-east sector. Corrections are ONLY made when the wind is sufficient to result in power generation - windspeed is in fact calculated from electrical power data using a polynomial expression. VIEWxx JPG (where xx is the number 1 to 5) to speed file transfer times, the brimpics.zip images have been separated to individual files and converted to JPG format. Set your image viewer to JPG DITHER for best results. ACHIEVE TXT record-breaking performance indicators of the wind generator under management of the Alternative Technology Association. DEMO GIF Simple graphics manipulation to put charts up on the Web ! MASSAGE TXT Description of the process of the "Do-It-Yourself" telemetry: data transfer from logger to computer, data compression and automated transfer to a remote computer by ordinary dial-up telephone line. GOING-UP JPG Assembly of the wind gen by 2 cranes (November 1987) NACELLE JPG View of the open nacelle, showing major components (Nov 1987) VESTAS JPG 8 of the 9 Vestas 225kW machines at Esperance, Western Australia ENTERGY TXT Entergy Corporation (37% nuclear) is the new owner of CitiPOWER, but we have a common interest in reducing greenhouse gas emissions, so "please keep buying this wonderful Breamlea power" (this is a copy of a letter published in "The Age" newspaper on 31 January 1996) VALUE2 TXT summary table proving that "random", unscheduled wind energy production is worth MORE than the wholesale electricity price (known as system marginal price, SMP) FREERE WAV the dulcet tones of Dr Peter Freere from the Centre for Electrical Power Engineering at Monash University. DAILY GIF day-by-day bar graph plot of each day's energy output from the wind generator from August 1995 to early April 1996 TALKNOTE TXT embedded generators WILL be able to trade electricity in the new National Grid, but industry acceptance of renewables is required to make it feasible (i.e. distribution companies) CODE_SUB TXT a submission to the National Grid Management Council on possible problems with the Code in relation to embedded generators trading through the national market. NAT_GRID TXT "National Grid gives green light to renewables" text of an article shortly to appear in the ATA's Soft Technology magazine (Winter 1996) ENERGYOZ TXT expression of interest recently submitted (6/5/96) to Energy Australia (a Sydney electricity distributor)