Briefly in English
Urban wind power - implementation conditions and profitability
The project SmartCityWind (02/2024 - 09/2025) gets funding in Finland from the European Regional Development Fund
The project (SMARTCITYWIND) investigates the prerequisites for introducing urban wind power from the perspective of windiness and economic profitability in general. Urban wind power is small-scale wind power that could be implemented with 1-10 kW vertical axis "vertical mills" inside the urban structure (in the master plan areas) and basically on high roofs.
The project focuses on finding out windiness in different types of locations and with different types of buildings, also taking into account different types of roofs. Approximate baseline data is provided by the measuring points of the Finnish Meteorological Institute, which are, for example, relatively dense in the capital region. However, windiness in urban conditions is very sensitive to the influence of the surrounding building stock.
In practice, roof-specific wind data is needed, and the project sets out to find out about roof-specific wind measurements. The measurements aim for a 12-month time series of 2-3 objects in coastal conditions and also 2-3 objects in inland conditions (Kanta-Häme).
