Site Suitability Analysis Tools

Both Zenergy, Wind and Sun are located in California, one of the top producers of solar and wind energy in the union. California lies in both the wind and sun belts, which experts are predicting, will become the next "gold rush" in which the Golden state may become known as the wind and sun harvesting capital of America.

Zenergy Wind and Sun Site Suitability Analysis Tools will enable customers to measure and compare performance models using Wind Turbine technology and Solar technology at their geographical location. Green Energy is developing the Zenergy Sun Here Site Suitability Analysis Tools in an effort to assist customers with understanding the benefits of renewable energy with specific details providing online feasibility including costs, tariff feed-ins, government subsidies and incentives.

Feed-in tariff (FiT), feed-in law, advanced renewable tariff or renewable energy payments is a policy mechanism designed to encourage the adoption of renewable energy sources and to help accelerate the move toward grid parity.

FiTs typically include three key provisions:

• Guaranteed grid access
• Long-term contracts for the electricity produced
• Purchase prices that are methodologically based on the cost of renewable energy generation and tend towards grid parity.

Under a feed-in tariff, eligible renewable electricity generators (which can include homeowners and businesses) are paid a premium price for any renewable electricity they produce. Typically regional or national electric grid utilities are obligated to take the electricity and pay them.

Zenergy Site Selection Sites are preselected on the basis of a wind atlas, and validated with wind measurements. Meteorological wind data alone is usually not sufficient for accurate sitting of a large wind power project. Collection of site-specific data for wind speed and direction is crucial to determining site potential. Local winds are often monitored for a year or more, and detailed wind maps constructed before wind generators are installed.

To collect wind data a meteorological tower is installed with instruments at various heights along the tower. All towers include anemometers to determine the wind speed and wind vanes to determine the direction.

Zenergy will provide the site survey tests and analysis with the right technology and team support to access the best placement and get your wind harvesting energy solutions and financial enterprise serving your specific needs. Green incentives, government mandates and subsidies provide economic development opportunities that will continue to win with zero emissions, green infrastructure investment opportunities, local job creation and natural resource development.

A wind atlas contains data on the wind speed and wind direction in a region. These data include maps, but also time series or frequency distributions. A climatological wind atlas covers hourly averages at a standard height (10 meter) over even longer periods (30 years). But depending on the application there are variations in averaging time, height and period. The towers generally vary in height from 30 to 60 meters. The towers primarily are guyed steel-pipe structures, which are left to collect data for one to two years and then disassembled. Data is collected by a data-logging device that stores and transmits data for analysis. Great attention must be paid to the exact positions of the turbines (a process known as micro-siting) because a difference of 30 m can nearly double energy production.

Wind speed

Map of available wind power over the United States. Color codes indicate wind power density class. As a general rule, wind generators are practical if windspeed is 10 mph (16 km/h or 4.5 m/s) or greater. An ideal location would have a near constant flow of non-turbulent wind throughout the year with a minimum likelihood of sudden powerful bursts of wind. An important factor of turbine sitting is also access to local demand or transmission capacity.