Welcome to the NJ Wind Working Group Kickoff Meeting

at Rowan University

Friday 6 October 2006

NJ Anemometer Loan ProgramSouth/Central Region

Dr. Peter Mark Jansson, PP PERyan McDevitt

Outline

• Anemometer loan program overview• Program Goals• Masts Characteristics• Current sites• Municipality Zoning

NJ ANEMOMETER LOAN PROGRAM

• Originally Funded by USDOE

• Currently Funded by NJCEP/NJBPU

• Facilitate assessment of wind resources for residential, farm and commercial applications

NJ ANEMOMETER LOAN PROGRAM GOALS

• Increase awareness and understandability of renewable energy potential

• Purchase, test, & install 30-meter mast outfitted with anemometers throughout southern NJ

• Free wind analysis for 1 year to estimate wind turbine paybacks for customers

NRG TILT-UP MASTS CHARACTERISTICS

• Steel tube with flared

sections• Guy lines maintain

stability• No land disturbance• Commercial product

Current Sites Being Assessed in South/Central NJ

• Port Norris• Lower Alloway Creek• Upper Deerfield• Cedarville• Chesterfield• Estell Manor

• Atlantic, Cumberland, and Salem Counties

View From Bottom of Mast in Cedarville

Raising Mast at Chesterfield

Mast Constructed at Lower

Alloway’s Creek Township

Data Loggers used with NRG Masts

Anemometer Set Up on Existing Tower in Port Norris

Municipality Zoning Obstruction• Obtaining Permits from Municipalities is a Major Obstacle in the Wind Energy Industry

New Jersey Wind Map Zoning Regulations Obtained by Municipality

Zoning Regulations Amended Commercial Township

• As of 2006

– 35 ft. Height Ordinance

– Land Use Board Obtain Use Variance

• Starting 2007

– Windmills will be permitted in specific districts

– “Will not block, interfere or otherwise substantially impair scenic vista”

– “Shall not be for the generation of power for commercial purposes” Although you can sell energy to the power grid

– “No windmill shall exceed a height greater than 200 feet”

– “Shall be designed to reduce or avoid any nuisances to surrounding

properties and to limit any noise”

– “Windmills shall require site plan review” Buffer zones determined by the Land Use Board