The City of Ellensburg has a Renewable Energy Park on some vacant land next to I-90. They’ve installed about 75kW worth of solar and are in the process of installing 8 wind turbines. 5 are in place at this time. The wind project is part of a research grant in conjunction with Pacific Northwest National Lab, the Department of Energy and the City of Ellensburg. The research focus is on various small wind technologies for residential and farm applications. Hire Electric installed the largest machine so far – a 10kW Bergey XL-S. The other machines are a Windspire, Honeywell, EnergyBall and the Skystream installed by Burke Electric of Seattle, WA. Real time data monitoring is supposed to be available for all of the machines some time this spring or early summer.
Partners:
This post has been updated and corrected. Earlier I had made a comment about the production of some of the machines installed by Burke Electric and did not realize the project had been shut down for the winter due to bad weather and that these machines were not yet commissioned. I want to express my apologies to the City of Ellensburg, the manufactures and Burke for this misinformation and any inconvenience it may have caused.
Hello Jonathan,
Trying to track you done to see if you or someone else at your company would be interested in pulling together a solar tour for this fall. Oct 6 is the date.
Do I understand that you are now working with Hire Electric?
Pam Burton
206-706-1931