Project Description
NAU's Collegiate Wind Competition Deployment Team has been tasked with designing a small-scale wind turbine that appeals to a current industry market. After compiling cross-disciplinary research, the team decided to focus their design towards the telecommunication market in India. Unlike in the United States, most of the telecommunication towers (cell phone towers) in India are not connected to the electrical grid. As such, all of these remote towers have to be powered by individual power sources, such as a diesel generator. The Deployment Team is designing a wind turbine that can be used to power these remote sites regularly as a part of a hybrid system. This system will utilize the turbine as the main source of power while using a battery bank and/or the exsisting diesel generator as backup power sources.