Wind'It
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Wind'It is a wind power implantation concept, developed by the French design office Elioth with the architects team Encore Heureux.
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[edit] Principle
Wind'It's principle is simple : using electricity pylons to host wind turbines. Those wind turbines would be plugged within the structure of the pylon. Though, another system is intended: a new electricity pylon holding a wind driven power unit has been designed.
[edit] Assets
There are many assets in this principle :
- This system allows the use of wind power without having to install huge infrastructures. It is the main problem with classical wind power projects : disfiguring landscapes and generating noise pollution.
- This concept gives value to the electricity pylons, confering them double purpose.
- Integrating the wind turbines into the pylons is a way to get a renewable energy directly connected to the existing network, thus eliminating the storage/connection issues.
- Using the existing network, spread all over the territory, the project spreads the production. Indeed, it is really rare that wind power is low all around the country, which allows a constant minimal production, and reduce the use of reactive production. Once again, one of the classical wind power issues is resolved.
[edit] Predicted production
According to the first simulations, outfitting one third of the pylons in France would result in the production of 15 tWh (15 billions kWh) a year.
