Taisei Turbines

Taisei Turbines

Taisei Turbines. I’m Greg Martin as Line On Agriculture presents the Harvest Clean Energy Report.

Vertical axis wind turbines are beginning to make a major impact on the renewable wind energy world. Rhyno Stinchfield, President of GreenWorld Partners talk about the new vertical turbines from Taisei Techno.

STINCHFIELD: Taisei is a manufacturer, originally started in Osaka, Japan. They have 50 years experience in the rail industry in Asia and what that evolved into was - now they make electronic components for high speed bullet trains in Asia. Now what happened several years ago is the CEO and primary owner of Taisei, a gentleman by the name of Shibagaki has a real passion for renewables.

Shibagaki teamed up with a man named Naguchi who had a patent for a vertical axis wind turbine.

STINCHFIELD: Naguchi’s background is aeronautics. He’s worked with Boeing and other companies and so he knows quite a bit the principals of aeronautics and translated that into a vertical axis wind turbine. A couple of years ago they decided they want to launch their product into the North American market .

Stinchfield became their distributor and their first priority was to find a university they could partner with. Stinchfield got them hooked up with Montana State Universities wind study program. Vertical axis turbines are easier to install in a wider variety places like small businesses and eventually homes.

STINCHFIELD: The smallest unit they make is a 1 kilowatt machine and there are people that want to put up small machines at their homes. I’ll say that the payback - because when you have a small turbine plus you have to have battery storage, etc. - you know you are going to have a long payback but there are people that for instance might be in a remote location, they might want to be off the grid; these 1kw machines are good for that.

These small units offer a good deal of flexibility.

STINCHFIELD: We’re talking with a municipality right now about using these turbines combined with solar panels, so you have a hybrid, to power their crosswalk signals because in some locations in the west where utilities haven’t caught up with the crosswalks where you have a further out subdivision or something like that. And it’s expensive to run power all the way to those crosswalk signals.

For additional information on clean energy, visit harvestcleanenergy.org. That’s today’s Line On Agriculture. I’m Greg Martin on the Ag Information Network.???www.harvestcleanenergy.org 

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