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Energy Solutions for a New Day
As the fastest growing energy technology, wind power is both old-fashioned and revolutionary. It is a proven entity, utilized for thousands of years to pump water and propel ships through the seas. Today, thanks to state-of-the-art wind turbines, this non-polluting energy source can also illuminate cities and power factories, schools, and homes. Right now is the right time for wind energy initiatives.
Wind power is a straightforward type of energy, but the business of harnessing it can be complicated. EcoEnergy Wind has the knowledge and experience to simplify the process and help make wind a powerful agent of change. We have a complete cadre of experts capable of developing, building and managing wind sites. These projects will help our country fulfill the demand for electric power, which is constantly growing, while helping to lessen our dependence on fossil fuels.
EcoEnergy Wind has the resources to manage wind projects from development through construction. We have all the required skills in-house, which ensures an efficient, integrated methodology from the early conceptual stages. Our integrated approach allows siting issues to be identified early in the process, leading to a more efficient and viable project. Community outreach is also important to any project’s success, and our people readily handle community relations and public education on a local and personalized level throughout the entire process to further ensure the success of the completed project. Our capabilities include:
Development
- Site evaluation for areas with optimal wind resources
- Land procurement
- Initial permitting
- Environmental studies
- Transmission and interconnection engineering
- Power marketing and contracting
Wind facility design to maximize energy output and accommodating landowner and wildlife concerns
- Meteorological tower installation
- Maintenance and data interpretation and analysis
- Use of wind facility software to estimate turbine production and wake effects
- Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) to understand complex terrains (addresses wind speed-up effects)
- Mesoscale wind modeling
- Turbine photo simulations to determine turbine aesthetics from any angle (can include fly-through animation)
- Sound level analysis
- Studies to avoid turbines interfering with existing radar, electromagnetic or microwave beam paths as well as any potential physical effects due to forests, agricultural settings, residential areas or other elements
- Environmental species review and pre-construction studies
- Shadow flicker modeling
- Detailed and highly accurate prediction of energy capacity, taking turbine power curves into account
- Quality control of all data
Engineering — all necessary electrical engineering, including:
- Thermal and electrical resistivity testing
- Electrical design studies
- Identification and selection of cable sizes and configurations
- Building the overall electrical system
- Electrical collector systems
- Civil engineering management to handle roads and turbine foundations
Construction
- Construction permitting (environmental, building, local legislative)
- Project, safety and environmental management
- Subcontractor and vendor management
- Geotechnical investigation
- Site preparation (roads, foundations, cabling, substation, overhead line installation)
- Equipment procurement (turbines, transformers, cables, other materials)
- Substation, interconnection and collection system construction (cables, transformers, breakers, ancillary equipment)
- Turbine erection
- Electrical connection of turbines to the utility grid
- Commissioning of individual turbines and entire project
Operations and maintenance
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From 1866 to 1942, Stover Manufacturing was a bustling business headquartered in Freeport, Illinois. Dedicated to the manufacture of “modern” windmills, it sold its nature-powered products all over the world through the Sears, Roebuck and Co. catalog.
The company enjoyed a sterling reputation. Families were proud to put up an award-winning Stover windmill. In fact, William Ford, the father of Henry Ford, took a special interest in the product at Philadelphia’s Centennial Exposition in 1876. The windmill had won a number of honors, including ribbons at the Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania state fairs. William decided to purchase one for the Ford family farm. When Henry restored his boyhood home in 1919, he took care to locate a Stover windmill for the site.
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