David Sharman's blog

The IEC 61400-2 edition 3 small wind turbine standard is now available. Right now it is available as a prerelease (FDIS) on the IEC webstore (see here ) . If you purchase and download it they wi...

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Following on from the last post: Today RenewableUK (formerly BWEA) issued the draft RenewableUK Small Wind Turbine Standard for public consultation.  Please visit the RUK website to view ...

http://ampair-aquair.blogspot.com/2013/02/bwea-ruk-and-mcs-consultation.html

IEC 61400-2 EDITION 3 PROGRESS: The vote on the CDV (committee draft for vote) for IEC 61400-2 edition 3 has now been received by the IEC secretariat. Twenty countries voted yes, with one no vo...

http://ampair-aquair.blogspot.com/2013/02/iec-61400-2-edition-3-small-wind.html

The CDV for 61400-2 edition 3 has now been circulated 24 Aug 2012 (in bilingual french & english format) under IEC reference 88/437/CDV with a closing date 25-Jan-2012. It took a little bit longe...

http://ampair-aquair.blogspot.com/2012/09/iec-61400-2-edition-3-small-wind.html

One of the reasons I have blogged less over the last few years is that I have been contributing to the drafting of the third edition of the IEC 61400-2 small wind turbine standard, and that has t...

http://ampair-aquair.blogspot.com/2012/06/iec-61400-2-edition-3-small-wind.html

The latest March 2011 results are in from the Delta Zeeland wind trial: http://www.zeeland.nl/digitaalarchief/ZEE0801257 These are a bit difficult to find - the easiest way is to go to ht...

http://ampair-aquair.blogspot.com/2011/04/delta-zeeland-small-wind-turbine.html

We had a query from bracken50 on the blog entry of 22 March 2010 asking about progress with the Ampair 6000. Firstly we’d rather that people were open about who they are and with luck bracken50...

http://ampair-aquair.blogspot.com/2011/03/ampair-6000-update-iii.html

As I am sure anybody who reads this blog realises we have a soft spot for anyone doing anything seriously challenging and risky in a good cause, and because they enjoy that sort of stuff. The lat...

http://ampair-aquair.blogspot.com/2010/05/rory-cookies-jester-challenge.html

Ampair Energy Limited is pleased to announce that the Sigma Sustainable Energy Fund II has committed £1.5m to Ampair Energy Limited (“Ampair”). Ampair is a new company based in Dorset, wh...

http://ampair-aquair.blogspot.com/2010/04/ampair-announces-investment-from-sigma.html

It has been some time since we updated everybody about our progress with the Ampair 6000, in fact since the 23 October 2009. Because of this I may get some of a rather complicated history out of ...

http://ampair-aquair.blogspot.com/2010/03/ampair-6000-progress-update-ii.html

This is just a quick blog entry to publicise the Cold Shores expedition; the 2010, British led attempt to traverse the Arctic Island of Svalbard. I used to do a fair amount of mountaineering a...

http://ampair-aquair.blogspot.com/2010/02/cold-shores-skiing-for-land-mine.html

I have just received some nice photos of off grid Ampair 600 units. The first is from Norway where it replaces an old Lakota unit, and the other three are from southern France which are a bit sun...

http://ampair-aquair.blogspot.com/2009/12/ampair-600-photos-from-france-and.html

Our distributor Shipshop / Schulz-Hohenstein Soehne will be exhibiting at Boot Dusseldorf in HAll 11H74. This is the German boat show and is from Jan 23 - 31, 2010. Schulz-Hohenstein Soehne Geib...

http://ampair-aquair.blogspot.com/2009/11/shipshop-schulz-hohenstein-soehne-at.html

A quick update on where we are with the Ampair 6000. Basically we have started installing and as a result are finding a few snags that we had not flushed out in testing at our own site. On one s...

http://ampair-aquair.blogspot.com/2009/10/ampair-6000-progress-update.html

A couple of weeks ago the BBC visited us to film for the BBC2 Working Lunch programme, including the Ampair 6000. They broadcast the footage on the same day that the British government made a n...

http://ampair-aquair.blogspot.com/2009/07/ampair-6000-video-and-on-bbc-television.html

The Energy Savings Trust have released a very short report into their Domestic Small-scale Wind Field Trial with the snappier subtitle 'Location, location, location'. The EST claim to be a non-...

http://ampair-aquair.blogspot.com/2009/07/energy-saving-trust-report-location.html

Last week I was lucky enough to go to Wisconsin to the MREA Small Wind Conference . This was two days of fun ! Luckily the weather was nice when I eventually arrived, after a night in Philadelphi...

http://ampair-aquair.blogspot.com/2009/06/mrea-small-wind-conference.html

This was a recent email to all our distributors that has a wider significance. On the downloads page http://www.ampair.com/ampair/resources_downloads.asp we have now added four new documents in...

http://ampair-aquair.blogspot.com/2009/06/ampair-600-and-ampair-6000.html

Ampair, the Berkshire, UK based company, has just revealed photographs of its sleek new 6000W x 5.5m turbine, the latest in a long line of reliable, rugged and quiet wind generators. This impress...

http://ampair-aquair.blogspot.com/2009/04/ampair-reveals-award-winning-new-6kw.html

On my way back from the European Wind Energy Conference in Marseille a few weeks ago I called in to see an old neighbour of mine who runs a farm in the Pyrenees. After convincing the sheepdogs th...

http://ampair-aquair.blogspot.com/2009/04/french-hill-farmers-and-british-feed-in.html

The April update from the Delta / Zeeland trial has arrived, with the March data. Zeeland%20small%20wind%20turbine%20testfield%20%28end%20Mar%202009%29.pdf The energy consumption figures have ...

http://ampair-aquair.blogspot.com/2009/04/delta-zeeland-trial-results-update.html

The latest results have come in from the Delta / Zeeland trial of small wind turbines in the Netherlands. They do not normally release public results at one month intervals so I expect it is beca...

http://ampair-aquair.blogspot.com/2009/03/delta-zeeland-trial-results-update.html

There has been feedback from three utilities and I have updated the rate information and the calculation tool which can be down loaded below. I have not agreed with all their comments (suprise) b...

http://ampair-aquair.blogspot.com/2009/03/microgeneration-tariff-update-march.html

. However all the explanation and information below will still be useful.] UK MICROGENERATION TARIFFS For 35-years Ampair has concentrated on manufacturing battery charging systems – our win...

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The Delta / Zeeland small wind turbine wind trial has released another set of results so that the data now covers a ten month period through until the end of January 2009. This is a trial of elev...

http://ampair-aquair.blogspot.com/2009/02/delta-zeeland-trial-results-update.html