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Site Selection | Wind Lease | Wind Resource Assessment | Community Acceptance | Permitting
Grid Interconnection | Project Design & Engineering | Construction | Commercial & Financial

A wind project will consist of:

Wind Turbines on towers with heights in 150-250 ft range; The base of the tower will have a diameter in the 10-12 ft range; the rotor will have a diameter in the 150-260 ft range. The nameplate capacity of the turbines will be in the 600 kW to 2 MW range. The wind turbine will start to operate at wind speeds of approx. 7 mph. They will reach their maximum output at wind speeds of approx. 30 mph. At wind stronger than 30 mph the power output will be regulated through either: a stall process (caused by the aerodynamic shape of the blades); a pitch process that feathers the blades, relative to the wind; a variable speed process (rotor rpm increases with higher winds); or a combination of the above processes. The wind turbines will continue to operate up to wind speeds of approx. 60 mph: at higher wind speeds the wind turbine will stop operations and go into a safe park mode. The operations of the wind turbine(s) are controlled by computer, that ensures safety and quality standards.

Project infrastructure, such as: 15-20 ft wide access and service roads; foundations; power collection and Grid-interconnection; underground fiber optic cable that connect all wind turbines to a central computer (SCADA system) that controls and monitors the project; sometimes a O&M building for larger projects, however the majority of the projects can be operated from a remote position through telecommunication devices.
Atlantic Renewable uses sophisticated software to design, optimize and engineer wind projects such as WindFarmer by Garrad Hassan (shown below) and WAsP by Riso.