scholarly journals A retrospective tiered environmental assessment of the Mount Storm Wind Energy Facility, West Virginia,USA

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Ann Efroymson ◽  
Robin Day ◽  
M. Dale Strickland
Keyword(s):  
West Virginia ◽  
Wind Energy ◽  
Environmental Assessment ◽  
Energy Facility

scholarly journals Echolocation activity of migratory bats at a wind energy facility: testing the feeding-attraction hypothesis to explain fatalities

2018 ◽  
Vol 99 (6) ◽  
pp. 1472-1477 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jesika P Reimer ◽  
Erin F Baerwald ◽  
Robert M R Barclay
Keyword(s):  
Wind Energy ◽  
Energy Facility

Birds not in flight: using camera traps to observe ground use of birds at a wind-energy facility

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shellie R. Puffer ◽  
Laura A. Tennant ◽  
Jeffrey E. Lovich ◽  
Mickey Agha ◽  
Amanda L. Smith ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Wind Energy ◽  
Camera Traps ◽  
Energy Facility

Wind Energy Resource Assessment and Power Production Estimates as an Undergraduate Project

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew C. Nix ◽  
Seth A. Lawson ◽  
Robert G. Murphy
Keyword(s):  
West Virginia ◽  
Wind Energy ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Control Volume ◽  
Monitoring Program ◽  
Energy Resource ◽  
Power Production ◽  
Monitoring Station ◽  
Design Project ◽  
Senior Design

It is common practice to install wind-monitoring stations in geographical locations having high winds to estimate power production prior to installing large-scale wind farms. For the current study, a wind-monitoring program was developed as an educational tool for undergraduate engineering students at West Virginia University. The focus of this paper is not on the results of the assessment, but rather on how this program was used as a hands-on approach for educating students about wind energy and availability. The objective of the student/industry collaborative project was to determine the feasibility of constructing a wind farm to power a federal prison facility located in an area with an abundant wind resource in North Central West Virginia, while educating students on wind energy. This paper presents a description and assessment of this program as an undergraduate senior design project. As part of the program, students played a key role from the developmental stages of the project, to the assessment of the results. During the first semester of the senior design project, students procured a wind monitoring station based on down-select criteria, selected the site for construction, installed the wind monitoring station, commissioned the sensor suite, and performed quality assurance/quality control (QA/QC) of and evaluated the initial data sets. Students logged data through the second semester of the program, performed data quality monitoring, processed average wind speed and direction data into frequency distributions and wind roses, analyzed monthly and diurnal averages in wind resources and performed power production calculations. Several different methodologies were employed, including application of fluid control volume energy analysis to derive Betz’ limit, turbine efficiency curves with operational limits and Weibull statistics to employ online power production estimators. The program successfully introduced students to the applicability of their engineering education to the area of renewable energy.

scholarly journals Willingness to Pay for Wind versus Natural Gas Generation of Electricity

2018 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-70
Author(s):  
Kofi Nkansah ◽  
Alan R Collins
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Natural Gas ◽  
West Virginia ◽  
Willingness To Pay ◽  
Wind Energy ◽  
Choice Experiment ◽  
Energy Use ◽  
Gas Generation ◽  
Alternative Policy ◽  
Per Capita

In 2009, West Virginia enacted an Alternative and Renewable Portfolio Act (APRA) to broaden its energy use for electricity beyond coal. A choice experiment survey was conducted to assess West Virginians’ willingness to pay (WTP) for 10 percent of electricity generated from wind energy versus natural gas. Results showed that residential consumers preferred electricity generated from wind, with annual per-capita WTP averaging from $19.25 to $26.75. Given the subsequent repeal of the APRA in 2015, we propose implementation of a voluntary green pricing program as an alternative policy to increase the share of renewable energy in West Virginia's energy portfolio.

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