Capacity Building in the Field of Wind Energy 6 - 15 December, 2009

1. JORDAN Renewable Energy
Activities
Wind farm Programs
Eng. Falah Ababneh
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2. Why is there a need for RE?
1. energy supply is not secure.
2. Fossil and nuclear energy
sources are limited.
3. Climate change requires
immediate action
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5. Energy Strategy 2007
• Maximize the Local primary Energy
• Issuance the RE law.
• Establishment of the Energy Fund.
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6. Government Facilities
• Providing land lease free of charge.
• Interconnection facilities .
• Exempted from taxes and custom
duties.
• The Gov. undertakes to purchase
electricity within appropriate pricing.
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7. Definition of Wind Turbine
•The meaning of wind farm or wind
turbines is a rotating machine which
convert the kinetic energy of the
wind into mechanical energy which
is commonly used for pumping
water or into electrical energy that
can be generate electricity for sale
to utilities.
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8. Mechanical Wind Turbine
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9. Electrical Wind Farm
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10. Why Wind Energy?
1. Growth rate in electrical demand.
2. The great Variation of the prices
of fuel oil.
3. The problems of pollution.
4. The development and new
technology of the wind farm
technique are the fastest.
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11. Development of Demand Growth Rate
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12. Why wind energy
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14. Technology and Research
• The technology which uses wind energy to
generate electricity has helped research since
1980 in lowering the cost of power generated
by wind farm from 80 cent per kilowatt hour to
between 6 cent per kilowatt hour nowadays.
• The continuous development in wind farm of
improving performance and increasing their
effectiveness as well as the sizes largely affects
on reducing the cost of production thereby
making it competitive with conventional energy
at the present time
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15. Size of wind turbine
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16. Location of Wind Farm
The uses of wind energy in locations
where the wind is smoothly high
which means if the rate of annual
wind speed at an altitude of 10
meters, equivalent to 7 m/s, or more.
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17. Electrical Wind Farm
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18. Wind Characteristics
Wind Atlas
To examine the promising
area, which is characterized by
wind speeds. NERC installed of
13 mast (tower) covering all
regions of the Kingdom with the
possibility of transfer to measure
the characteristics of wind (wind
speed and direction) at different
altitude
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19. Location of Wind Mast
Measurements made
at these locations
on the following
rises:
1. (10,40).
2. (10,40,50).
3. (30,45).
4. (22,40,60).
5. (10,24).
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20. Mast Name High mast Elevation Date of
[m] above sea [m] Installation
Ibrahemeh 1 60 992 8/2005
Ibrahemeh 2 24 1021 8/2005
Kamshah 50 879 2/2006
R.S.s 45 1066 4/2004
Shoubak 40 40 1274 8/2001
Fujeij 1 45 1274 12/2001
Um ejmal 45 750 5/2007
alashqaf 45 994 1/2006
Al-reesheh2 50 876 12/2006
maan 50 1196 10/2006
Al-harrier 50 1529 5/2007
Um alrumman 10,60 456 5/2007
aqaba 60 76 10/2007
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21. Jordanian Wind Farm Applications
1. At the beginning of the eighties
the Royal Scientific Society
designed and manufactured
mechanical fan in three sizes
were installed on a number of wells
in the desert.
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23. Jordanian Wind Farm Applications
2.Wind energy was used successfully in
1987 in the hybrid system to provide a
village in southern part of Kingdom of
electric power; the system included:
two fans 20 kW each,
solar cells of 10 kW,
storage batteries 330 kW standby
generator of 65 KVA
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24. Generated Electricity from Our Already
Applied Wind Farms
•Ibrahemeh wind power • Hofa Wind Power
plant 1988 Plant 1996
•4 X 80 kW • 5 X 225 kW
• 30 m
•High of tower 24 m
• 800 m
•Altitude 1000 m
• 13 m
•Blade of turbine 8 m
Generator operate two different speeds
Annual production from both 2.8 GWh
The high level of production in the summer
months.
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27. Proposed Wind Projects
• Al-Kamshah [30-40 MW]
• Fujeij [60-70 MW]
• Harer [100-200 MW]
• Wadi Arabeh [40-50 MW]
• NAANOVA [100 MW]
• Azraq [100-150 MW]
• Maan [100-150 MW]
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28. Thanks for your Attention
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