250 feet of shielded five conductor cable are provided to transmit wind direction and velocity data to the facility. The sensor boom is mounted on the wind turbine tower below the rotor disk area. NRG Systems 7' tower side mount boom. The Solar PV Power Demonstration Project The Solar PV demonstration system consists of 14 Siemens 75 watt roof mounted photovoltaic panels which feed power to the facility through a specially designed utility synchronous inverter. The inverter converts the DC electric power from the solar PV array into utility standard AC power to be used by the facility.
Excess power is sold back to the utility to reduce the facility's electric power costs.
The one kilowatt solar photovoltaic array is comprised of three five-panel sub arrays which are assembled as structurally integral units and individually wired in series. These sub assemblies are then hoisted up to the roof for mounting on the roof mount system. The roof mounting system provides for air circulation under the solar PV panels which promotes cooling, increases power output, and extends panel life. The system design also facilitates removal of one or more solar photovoltaic panels from a sub array without having to remove the entire sub array assembly. Omnion Power Engineering model 2400 allows direct conversion of the solar energy to standard utility AC power without a battery storage system.