Friday, September 7, 2012

Hurricane Wind Power Reviews Power Ratings

Hurricane Wind Power reviews power ratings seeks level playing field

Hurricane Wind Power reviews power ratings seeks level playing field

In the past few years the wind turbine industry, from the commercial side, the "home brew" community do it yourself ethisiasts and the "scammers" have found themselves at odds.

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PRLog (Press Release) - Sep 07, 2012 -
Hurricane Wind Power owner Anthony Jones announced today that after reviewing the state of the wind energy industry power rating that all Hurricane Wind Power products will now report data on all wind turbines and permanent magnet alternators, PMA's or generators in several new and comprehensive formats. In the past few years various groups have created customer confusion and a lack of confidence in purchasing wind power products.

Methods of rating wind power products have existed on a continuum of outright lies to bending the truth in order to make a product look good according to Jones .  The state of wind power performance reporting has become a farce, which Hurricane wishes to distance itself from. Jones spoke of a California based company which rates its wind turbines at 1500 watts but is careful to put in the qualifier that this output was rated at 70 mile per hour winds, "This is ridiculous" the  National Renewable Energy Laboratory and widely respected organizations such as the American Wind Energy Association have clearly stated that the rated wind speed for output  is 11 meters per second  or 24.6 miles per hour.

Jones went on to explain that in the past few years the "do it yourself" movement in wind power often expressed power output represented simply by measuring open voltage multiplied by shorted amps that estimated a power output at a given generator RPM. These methods are outdated and Hurricane is adhering to the standard of the AWEA and NREL with its wind turbines. As well Jones went on to state that instantaneous ratings which can be most easily understood as a "flash" power rating or power that is not sustained  should not be used as a rated power output either. Some companies even on the commercial level as American Wind Energy Association members still advertise instantaneous output ratings as their "rated performance".  PMA's from Hurricane will also carry expected wattage output from  Newton Meters or Foot Lbs torque input from the source or airfoil

In the poor economic state of the nation as well as worldwide Jones expressed the sentiment that while sales may be lost in the short term due to the flashy high watt output ads of some.  He is confident a long term solid business model should be founded upon the principles of openness,  honesty,  trust and consumer confidence.  In uncertain time people must know that the performance for the money or ROI return on investmentmakessense.Visit us at http://www.hurricanewindpower.com ;
https://twitter.com/HurricanePower and http://www.hurricanewindpower.proboards.com/

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Source
: Hurricane Wind Power Anthony Jones
City/Town
: Roanoke

3 comments:

  1. Honesty is the best policy. Glad to see a company adopting such a good policy.

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  2. It is not that I am saying we are better than anyone else but the reporting of data in an understandable format needs to be communicated in a way that customer can interpret in a meaningful way otherwise we are not going to make much in the was of progress to facilitate proliferation of renewable energy technology

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  3. I'd like to see a few Hurricane Wind Power reviews about about grid ties or comparing different (pro/con) systems (solar vs wind vs hydro, etc...)

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