WIND POWER AT GUANTANAMO BAY: A HYBRID WIND-DIESEL SYSTEM FOR THE US NAVY AT GUANTANAMO NAVAL BASE USING AN ENERGY SAVINGS PERFORMANCE CONTRACT

摘要

NORESCO and researchers from the University of Massachusetts' Renewable Energy Research Laboratory and are actively developing what will be the world's largest wind-diesel hybrid electric plant. The pending installation of four 950-kW wind turbines to supplement the 22.8 MW diesel electricity plant at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base is to be carried out under the Federal ESPC (Energy Savings Performance Contracting) Program in partnership with the U.S. Navy. This paper outlines the initial project development, including the wind measurement, data analysis using measure-correlate-predict (MCP) techniques, turbine siting, potential environmental impacts, time-series modeling of the wind-diesel system, and selection of the wind turbines. The integration of the wind system into the existing diesel power plant was modeled with the Hybrid2 program in order to estimate the wind plant's potential energy contribution and the resulting reduction in diesel fuel use. In addition to technical performance calculations, NORESCO's role in project development and Energy Savings Performance Contract (ESPC) financing is also summarized.