Wind Generator System for Microwave Radio Relay Station

NTT has introduced a wind generator system at microwave relay stations. It consists of a wind turbine generator as main power source and three diesel driven generators as back up. The wind turbine generator adopts a Darrieus unit as the wind driven blades and generates 8 kW maximum power with strong winds blowing over 15 m/s. Before this introduction, NTT manufactured two different wind turbine generator prototypes, one using a propeller and the other a Darrieus unit, and field tests have been carried out since 1978. This paper describes the field tests and the wind generator system for microwave relay stations.