NWTC Pika Puffin Testing on a AnemErgonics Tower; NREL Tracking No. 16-005 Award Number: DE-AC36-08GO28308 CX(s) Applied: DOE/EA-1914 National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) Date: 01/28/16 Location(s): CO Office(s): Golden Field Office
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NWTC Pika Puffin Testing on a AnemErgonics Tower; NREL Tracking No. 16-005
Award Number: DE-AC36-08GO28308
CX(s) Applied: DOE/EA-1914
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
Date: 01/28/2016
Location(s): CO
Office(s): Golden Field Office
Pika Energy, Inc. and AnemErgonics, LLC’s proposed project would involve installation of a Pika Puffin wind turbine on an AnemErgonics Exoskeleton tower at the National Wind Technology Center (NWTC) Site 3.2b. This project would replace the 65 foot tall, 1.7kW Pika turbine and tower currently installed at the same location (NREL 13-003).
The Pika Puffin is a 7.5kW wind turbine with a 20-foot rotor diameter. The turbine is a direct grid connect with the inverter being in the nacelle (See diagram in the uploaded attachment in the PMC). The AnemErgonics Exoskeleton tower would be installed on the existing foundation at Site 3.2b, four new holes would be drilled in the corner of the foundation to install anchors for the guy wires connections. The tower would be approximately 110 feet tall and would have external guy wires on it. The overall height of the tower and turbine would be no more than 125-feet. Electrical wires would be run through pre-existing conduits, so no excavation would be needed. The purpose of the installation would be to test this turbine prototype and test this tower/turbine configuration. The testing would occur over 2 to 3 years.