Shermco’s Kevin Alewine as well as AWEA’s Technical Program Chair for 2014.
Kevin Alewine, director of Renewable Energy Services for Shermco Industries, has been selected as the Technical Program Chair for WINDPOWER 2014 to be held in Las Vegas on May 5 to 8. Alewine will assist the American Wind Energy Association staff in organizing sessions, recruiting moderators and speakers, as well as providing marketing guidance.
“This is a big job that I’m excited and honored to take on. WINDPOWER is the premier wind energy event in this hemisphere and representatives from the whole industry, from suppliers to owners to wind tech schools, attend this event to take advantage of the diverse educational and networking opportunities,” said Alewine.
Alewine is the Director of Renewable Energy Services for Shermco Industries with a focus on business development in the wind energy business sector including both maintenance services and community wind projects. He has extensive global experience with the manufacture and repair of electrical machinery, including wind turbine generators. Kevin is an active member of several IEEE and American Wind Energy Association working groups and is the Co-chair of the AWEA Operations and Maintenance Working Group responsible for developing and maintaining recommended practices for wind energy asset maintenance and operations management.
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Additionally, you could sell advertising space on the triangular assemblies! Light them up at christmas time! Provide nesting for birds on the horizontal panels, and keep things free of ice and snow with solar power from the tower. Circular panels would be more esthetic. I have such devices made in small scale from cd’s and they rotate nicely in the winds here in California. Regardles of the wind direction!
Perhaps a triangular wind device of three panels, one horizontal will provide not only wind power from winds in any direction but can be fitted with solar panels for windless day power. Such an arrangement would provide a strong assembly,triangular and one face of the triangle can be used for solar energy devices.
In studying the effects of wind farm layouts, I learn that parallel wind farm device layouts suffer from wind power loss in the leeward side of the farms. This may well be absent if instead of the prop mechanism, a triangular setup should not be affected by the wind disturbances of the windward devices is such was used for the leeward elements of wind farms.
When there is no wind, all elements of the farm having solar panels can then be connected for energy generation from the sun.
Additionally, the towers themselves could have solar devices applied to receive solar energy even during windy conditions.
Triangles are one of the most stable mechanical shapes. The horizontal face can rest on a bearing and the generators are mounted vertically.
I understand that helical devices haven’t done very well in wind power applications. Triangular should demonstrate a stable result and provide solar panels to boot!
I am 88 years old and am not impressed with the large rotating props. Therefore I make this comment as an alternative.