R.P. Delio and Company announces the roll-out of a new small wind turbine service, Hawaii-wide, using its Waypoint Power™ platform, which enables on-site real-time wind monitoring to help assess the wind resources at prospective clients' properties. The deployment of this service has already begun, with the initial monitoring systems in operation at residential and commercial customer sites on Kauai, Big Island, and Oahu.
R.P. Delio and Company has been a purveyor of Urban Green Energy clean energy products, including small wind turbine generators, across Hawaii for more than 3 years, and has been UGE's licensed distributor in the state since 2014. The company has installed small wind turbines on Oahu and Kauai, and is able to deploy UGE wind turbines to any of the islands throughout the state of Hawaii.
The need for wind-monitoring service is based on the observation that, for every 10 customers who have a property where photovoltaic solar technology (PV) makes economic sense, there is likely only one customer where small wind makes better economic sense. This more exclusive scope for wind power is down to a combination of factors, including property size, local windiness, topography and wind fields, and the presence of nearby obstructions such as trees and buildings. Identifying the subset of customers with wind turbine potential is important to R. P. Delio and Company, as the economics and other benefits are often considerably in excess of those for PV. These include lower interconnection challenges and costs, especially in areas of high PV penetration, the provision of power both day and night, and the enhanced scope for generating power off-grid.