WMG refines wind turbines for the built environment
A new type of wind turbine for installation in the built environment is being refined at Warwick Manufacturing Group’s (WMG’s) 3D Power Wall.
Bulgaria-based McCamley has developed the MT01 Mk2 vertical axis wind turbine and is also using the Power Wall to showcase its innovation to potential buyers.
McCamley’s self-starting turbines currently range from 3–24kW and will initially be targeted at the Urban Renewable Power (URP) market.
They do not take any energy from the grid and are able to operate from wind speeds of only 1.8ms-1. Furthermore, they will not cut out, and continue to generate electricity during extreme weather events such as hurricanes.
They are also radar benign and could therefore be used on top of any building with a helipad.
Philip Mayer, McCamley chairman, said: ‘Planners tend to think of wind turbines as a big mast with blades spinning round. But we’re changing the thinking and planning authorities want to see what our product would look like simulated on their building.’
WMG’s Power Wall allows designers to display and manipulate 3D models that are accurate to five thousandths of a millimetre.
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