Energy

Micro-wind Turbines in Urban Environments

1. Provides a rigorous analysis of all the factors that influence the power that small wind turbines can generate in urban areas
2. Studies the whole life costs and carbon emission costs of micro-wind turbines
3. Case studies for three locations - Manchester, Wick and Portsmouth

• Executive summary
• Introduction Inventory analysis of micro-wind turbine systems
• Introduction, University of Bath LCA data, System boundaries, Recycling, Results, Comparison with LCA data for other turbines, Installation, maintenance and operation of the micro-wind systems
• Estimation of typical urban wind resource, Introduction, Wind resource - adjustment factors for urban environment
• Electricity generation by building-mounted wind turbines in typical urban scenarios, Introduction, Methodology for the electricity calculation, Results, Conclusions
• CO2 payback for domestic micro-wind turbines in urban environments
• Life cycle costs and financial payback for micro-wind turbines, Introduction to life cycle costing, What costs are taken into account when undertaking LCC for a wind turbine?
• Discussion and conclusions
• Further work
• References
• Appendix A. UK Mean annual wind speed at 25 m above ground level
• Appendix B. Locations for which the BREVe scaling factors were obtained