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Another power generator Urban wind Power Station with a capacity of 10 kW, i.e. UWPS -10, was installed at the invitation of ARBOR Sp. z o.o. NS. K. on the roof of the sawmill office building in Krychów near Lublin, in the zone of the Polish Eastern Wall.

The installation of the device in this place was carried out with the use of the heavy equipment provided sawmill.

We are impressed by the kindness and commitment of the company’s employees. We hope the wind will be good and the tests will be successful.

For a month now, another prototype of the Urban Wind Power Station with a power of 5 kW has been installed on the Postołowo Golf Club in Postołowo near Gdańsk.
The construction of a large Residential and Conference Center is planned next to the field. We hope that our innovative RES system will fit into the landscape of the Center and the golf course.

We started cooperation with Arbor Sp. z o.o., a supplier of biomass for power industry and wood processing as part of the production of pallets and construction timber. A weather station has been installed at the sawmill in Krychów near Lublin, and another prototype of the Urban Wind Power Station will be installed soon.

Another Urban Wind Power Station device launched!

The first to see how the device works were the participants of the most popular Polish golf tournament for women – Dr Irena Eris-Lady Golf Cup.

Another Urban Wind Power Station device launched!

This time, the location for testing another UWPS power generator (5kW) is the Kraków Valley Golf & Country Club in Paczółtowice.

Urban Wind Power Station works in a vertical version with fixed, vertical diffusers that also protect against direct contact with the rotating turbine. Tests on the golf course are to confirm, among others, that working in the vertical version allows the use of air streams blowing low near the ground and that such low rotational speeds do not give any adverse sound and reflective effects. Low rotational speed and external protection with diffusers effectively ensure the safety of birds and animals as well as people. The monitoring station installed next to it will continuously transmit data about the operation of the device and the amount of electricity produced.

The location in the area of ​​Kraków Valley Golf & Country Club was selected after an annual analysis of air flows in this area.  The installation site is characterized by airstreams running low above the ground and relatively regular winding direction – in this case on the E-W line with features resembling a breeze blowing over the seaside.

Urban Wind Power Station was installed on the embankment previously prepared for the ski lift operating there.

We invite you to a series of webinars and a discussion about the possibilities of slowing down climate change and the necessary measures that will give the opportunity to meet the EU directives leading to climate neutrality in 2050. We want to discuss the possibility of energy recycling. What to do to prevent metropolises from becoming islands of heat? Can ecology be economically attractive for the budgets of communes, enterprises and citizens? How different RES can act synergistically?

Can the innovative Urban Wind Power Station generator set give a positive answer to these questions?

The topics of our June webinars are:

1. Energy recycling as a way to slow down climate change (15.06),
2. Energy recycling as an escape from heat islands in urban areas. (23.06),
3. Energy recycling with the use of air streams forced by human activity (30.06),
4. Energy recycling in synergistic systems with other RES (06.07).

The “School with Climate” competition, organized by the National Fund for Environmental Protection and Water Management, has started.

Its aim is to make young people interested in climate change issues, and to look for ways to avoid or reduce them. and thus sensitizing the young generation to environmental issues and activating them to act in this direction. At the same time, the competition task is a great way to develop teamwork skills and present the results of teamwork. The competition also promotes knowledge about the activities of the National Fund for Environmental Protection and Water Management.

http://www.nfosigw.gov.pl/szkolazklimatem/

On the roof of the “Novotel Warszawa Centrum” hotel, as part of the LIFE-UrbanWind.PL program, another test generator, Urban Wind Power Station, was installed (after installation on the Sobienie Królewskie Golf & Country Club golf course). This 5 kW device is currently undergoing mechanical and electrical tests and will soon be formally connected to the grid. We are planning to install a dozen or so similar devices in various locations as part of the LIFE-UrbanWind.PL project.

On July 30, 2020, the first prototype of the 5 kW Urban Wind Power Station device was installed on the Sobienie Królewskie Golf & Country Club golf course in Sobienie Szlacheckie near Warsaw. The module is 2.90 m high and therefore no building permit is required for its installation. The Prosumer Act enables the installation of generating devices with the above-mentioned parameters as part of a simplified administrative system. This is true for private individuals as well as for entrepreneurs.

This device Urban Wind Power Station is a generator set for use in urbanized areas. For the production of electricity, it uses renewable, practically unlimited energy of air streams forced by human activity in urban space. Due to its design, it is safe for the environment and birds. does not emit noise. The device produces 230V electricity . The nominal power of these devices is 5, 10 and 20kW.

The device consists of a modular engine -wind turbine and a generator. Can be used in vertical and/or horizontal position.
It can also be safely used indoors, where there are air streams, e.g. in the subways, as well as in park spaces, e.g. on golf courses.
It does not dependent on the direction of the air streams due to the use of cylindrical panel diffusers.

The engine module has a height of about 1 m and for setting on roofs it consists of two modules, so that the on the roof structure is not higher than 3m. Its diameter varies and can be any but the standard in this phase is 70, 90 and 110 cm.

In addition to the production of electricity in a distributed system, mainly for its own needs, it can be used to produce potable water from saline sea water and salted waste mine waters, it can produce hydrogen and oxygen by electrolysis. Synergy with photovoltaics is a natural combination as well as supporting the operation of ground wind farms.

According to the timetable of the LIFE UrbanWind.pl project, we are building a catalog of air streams forced by human activity in urban space. We designed and built weather stations that are designed to record online data on air flows forced by human activities. They measure temperature, speed, direction and humidity of streams and send data to our base in Warsaw. Currently, two stations are installed: on the roof of the Bella company – Zakład Kompozytów Sp. z o.o. in Czosnów near Warsaw, on the Kraków Valley Golf & Country Club golf course in Paczułtowice near Krakow, the next two will be installed at facilities designated by Warsaw authorities in Warsaw, another will be installed on the Sobienie Królewskie Golf & Country Club golf course near Warsaw. A portable set is also built that will travel to designated places and collect temporary data in those places. It is important in the aspect of collecting information on air streams “under the roof” and in places where it is impossible to place our station permanently.

Contest ! Present your vision of the city of the future developed in the environment of Ecocraft – the ecological equivalent of the popular Minecraft game.

The organizers are the Veolia Polska Foundation and the UNEP / GRID-Warsaw Center, who are members of the “Partnership for Climate” Platform, to which our ECO FOR LIFE Foundation also belongs.

We invite you to participate in the competition under the slogan “We are building green Warsaw in Ecocraft” organized as part of the “Heat for Cities” program. The program is implemented in close cooperation with experts of the Office of Air Protection and Climate Policy of the City of Warsaw. Warsaw as one of the initiatives supporting the implementation of the objectives of the Climate Partnership.

Works can be submitted until January 3, 2020 until 15:00. Attractive cash prizes have been provided for the authors of the best works. Detailed information is available at http://www.cieplodlamiast.pl/warszawa and at the competition event on Facebook (We are building green Warsaw at Ecocraft, https://www.facebook.com/events/470364197150358).

3 and 4 October 2019 representation of the Support Foundation Ecology ECO FOR LIFE and the Institute of Research, Applied Sciences and New Technologies Sp. Z o.o. took part in the LIFE Kick-off Meeting Climate Change Project Conference in Brussels. As beneficiaries of the LIFE-UrbanWind.PL project, we had the opportunity to meet 31 other European projects in this field, the implementation of which is currently underway and the current guidelines and achievements of the European Commission regarding the policy Climate Change Adaptation and Climate Change Mitigation ).

Representatives of EASME (Executive Agency for Small and Medium sized Enterprises), the European Commission and NEEMO EEIG Life Team (international agency monitoring LIFE projects) made sure that all conference participants could learn as much as possible on all possible topics related to the formal implementation of projects. The scope and possibilities of cooperation resulting from participation in the LIFE program are enormous.

Good luck to all colleagues starting new, extremely interesting LIFE projects !!

The ECO for LIFE Foundation for Ecology Support and the Institute of Research, Applied Sciences and New Technologies with the LIFE-UrbanWind.PL project actively participated in the Polish Economic Summit in Siedlce.

The two-day jubilee Fifth Polish National Economic Summit in Siedlce ran under the main slogan: “State – Economy – Security”. The discussions were dominated by environmental topics, especially in the context of improving air quality in Poland, also regarding investments in renewable energy sources and national energy security. The second day of OSG is a workshop led by Energy Advisors An Energy Consulting Project for entrepreneurs, home owners, farm owners, and representatives of local government units. The advisers provided consultations and advice on the possibilities of obtaining funding for energy efficiency investments and issues related to limiting the negative impact of emissions on air quality. In this panel, the President of the Foundation Anna Niewodzka and the President of the Institute Anna Łasica-Czaplejewicz presented our LIFE-UrbanWind.PL project as a renewable energy source in a distributed system.

The organizers of the above were: the Ministry of Energy and the National Fund for Environmental Protection and Water Management. The event was held under the honorary patronage of Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki.

LIFE-UrbanWind.PL was presents as the one of best international projects on April 17, 2019, at the LIFE Information Day .
It was organized for the twelfth time by the National Fund for Environmental Protection and Water Management. The conference was held in Warsaw at the MsMermaid conference center – Conference Center at The Tides (website: www.msmermaid.pl) ul. Wioślarska 8.
The purpose of the event was the inauguration at the national level of this year’s call for applications for the LIFE Program, as well as the presentation of the grant offer that the program allows, and the general rules for applying for funding in the 2019 call. It was also an opportunity to learn about ongoing or implemented projects and exchange experiences with current Beneficiaries of LIFE. We hope that the projects presented during the event will become an inspiration for future applicants.
Information Day program

The LIFE 2019 Information Day consisted of a general session and three thematic sessions.

The general (morning) session was addressed to people who are preparing to submit an application in the LIFE recruitment and are looking for basic knowledge about the Program and its principles.

Thematic sessions (afternoon) were devoted directly to the main priority areas of LIFE. Sample, best projects were presented at various stages of implementation, thanks to which it was possible to learn different perspectives of participation in the program.

– Session I Environment and resource efficiency – the theme was air protection projects
– Session II Nature and biodiversity – was devoted to species protection
– Session III Mitigation of climate change – with particular emphasis on market projects

Additionally, during the event, a dozen or so Program Beneficiaries presented their projects at special information stands. Therefore, conference participants had the opportunity to directly exchange information and experience from the implementation of ongoing projects.