#3 - USE RENEWABLE ENERGY - Wind Energy

Wind energy can be used to provide power for the project at building, site, or community scales. Smaller micro-turbines can be integrated into the design of the building itself if the site area is restricted. Additonal site area can allow for the erection of larger/taller turbines that can be used to power the project, and if excess power is available, either put back into the grid, or sold locally as green power. Larger projects might make use of community scale wind farms.

The use of wind energy on a project will depend heavily on the specific wind regime on the site, or in adjacent areas.

Micro Turbines Compliment a CHP System for Jubilee Wharf

Wind may be considered at this point in time to be one of the more controversial forms of renewable energy on this continent.

HELPFUL LINKS IN THE AIA 50to50 WIKI:

Renewable Energy