Patent ID: 7932621

Claim:
A method for an integrated wind-solar energy system utilizing an existing wind turbine infrastructure, the integrated wind-solar energy system comprising: generating wind energy by a wind turbine generator; responsive to generating the wind energy, routing the wind energy to turbine tower electrics; directing sun light to a solar array, wherein the solar array is permanently mounted on racks in horizontal, or vertical position, or in combination of horizontal and vertical positions; routing solar energy form the solar array to a Direct Current (DC) combiner box; routing the solar energy form the DC combiner box to a voltage regulator; routing the solar energy form the voltage regulator to a turbine tower electrics; combining the solar energy with the wind energy in the turbine tower electrics resulting in an integrated wind-solar energy; routing the integrated wind-solar energy from the turbine tower electrics to a tower step up transformer; and routing the integrated wind-solar energy from the tower step up transformer to a wind farm main step up transformer, and wherein the integrated solar energy system comprises a grounding system for the integrated wind-solar energy system.