by jbs052710 f3 — May 31, 2010—The U.K.’s BRE Trust has announced a new report providing guidance on the positioning of wind turbines on the roofs of tall buildings to maximize their potential for wind power generation.
Building-Mounted Micro-Wind Turbines on High-Rise and Commercial Buildings (BRE stock code 325406), is based on a study that characterizes wind conditions over a range of building heights from 15 meters to 80 meters, and provides guidance on the most effective height and location for wind turbine installations.
U.K. government policy (Planning Policy Statement PPS22) requires that all future nonresidential or mixed-use developments above 1000m2 will be expected to provide at least 10 percent of their energy requirements from onsite renewable energy generation. Wind energy produced from building-mounted wind turbines could be expected to provide a proportion of this renewable energy.
