Cape Fear Community College

Engineering Technology Department


Alternative Energy projects
The Engineering Technology Department at CFCC is pursuing Alternative Energy projects including wind and solar power. A wind study has been implemented at the North Campus in order to confirm the most effective wind turbine installation. We were able to install a anemometer on a 45' tall pole designed to collect wind speed data so we can determine/confirm the effective height/placement of our tower. In addition, a solar power (PV) array study will be underway soon.

Weather Station

Joe Stokes, EET lead Instructor at CFCC and Jason Epstein, from Outer Ring Energy and Shawn M. Russell, Engineering Technology Department Chair, make up this exciting and knowledgeable team.


Joe Stokes and Shawn Russell at the UV powered base
45 foot tower installed and ready to collect data
Jason Epstein - All systems go!

Solar Power Array
Installation

The solar array installation; foundation, electrical, tracker, photovoltaics, controls. components get installed after careful design and placement calculations

Operation

The Solar Array project is now operational. It tracks the sun with a 600 watt photovoltaic collectors and delivers renewable electricity to the applied technologies building grid and batteries for storage and local usage.

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The Wind Generator
Installation
Raising the tower:
Video (3 min)

Engineering Technology Department