The Role of Wind Energy in the SolarSuperState Concept

Wind energy presents significant opportunity to provide a series of public goods. Drawing on the ideas of J.Q. Wilson and E. Ostrom, we compare options to overcome the obstacles that stand in the way of deploying wind energy in two US states, Texas and Minnesota. Texas outperformed Minnesota in deploying wind energy technology despite Minnesota's ample wind and other natural advantages. To explain this gap in performance, we argue that Texas outperformed Minnesota because of a more fitting governance system and rules for determining (i) boundaries, (ii) cost and benefit allocation, (iii) conflict resolution, and (iv) rule revision. Our approach sheds an alternative yet overlooked lens upon the topic of wind energy development by focusing on how the concentration of power and authority in the hands of a few dominant public and private elites can lead to the successful deployment of a complex renewable technology under some circumstances.

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MEASUREMENT OF WIND POWER AND ENERGY USING AN ANEMOMETER WITHOUT MOVING PARTS

Journal on Processing and Energy in Agriculture ◽

10.5937/jpea25-35286 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 25 (4) ◽

pp. 160-162

Author(s):

Bojan Vujičić ◽

Boris Ličina ◽

Platon Sovilj ◽

Vladimir Vujičić

Keyword(s):

Wind Energy ◽

Wind Power ◽

Digital Measurement ◽

Digital Signals ◽

Digital Output ◽

Power And Energy ◽

Cup Anemometer ◽

Analog Adder ◽

Moving Parts

The paper deals with the application of a newly developed anemometer without moving parts. It is digitized and has built-in electronics that convert the vibrations of two aluminum fixed frames into two digital signals: one, which shows the strength (speed absolute value)) of the wind, and the other, which shows its direction. Both of these signals are used to calculate wind power and energy. Earlier works have shown that the two-bit stochastic digital measurement method overcomes (eliminates) the problem of the offset of the analog adder. The authors of this paper apply this idea to the digital output of the sensor, where the role of the offset of the analog adder is taken over by the integral nonlinearity of the digital output of the anemometer. The first step in this direction is digitally dithering the sensor output. This principle is presented in detail, as well as a rough estimate of the accuracy gain in measuring wind energy. The obtained result shows that the accuracy in measuring wind energy is not worse than the limit accuracy in the case of a cup anemometer that generates sinusoidal voltage.

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Utilization of solar and wind energy to improve the quality of life for rural communities in Blora Regency – Indonesia: from triple helix to quadruple helix

IOP Conference Series Earth and Environmental Science ◽

10.1088/1755-1315/916/1/012036 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 916 (1) ◽

pp. 012036

Author(s):

A Y Asmara ◽

A R T Hidayat ◽

H Ohgaki ◽

T Mitsufuji ◽

J C Caballero

Keyword(s):

Rural Communities ◽

Wind Energy ◽

Rural Areas ◽

Triple Helix ◽

Electrical Energy ◽

Quadruple Helix ◽

Central Java ◽

Sustainability Issue

Abstract Studies of triple helix field indicated that involvement of academician, business, government (ABG) were leading players in bringing up invention to be innovation. In the current decade, society actor served as the new actor added in the ABG-S frame concerning to the sustainability issue of innovation. This study aimed to present the role of the concerned actors in proposing an innovative product of a combined solar and wind energy generator installed in rural areas of Blora Regency. Blora was one of the regions in the Central Java Province that utilized electrical energy sourced from non-fossil. A Qualitative research method was utilized in this study to disclose the involvement of each actor in Blora’s case. The study reported that ABG-S actors’ involvement in implementing a combined solar and wind energy generator to the villages.

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