The Current Status of Carbon Free Energy Technologies
Figure 2.8-2 Wind and Solar hybrid power station at Pulau Perhentian
The Ministry of Rural and Regional
and Ulu Gombak, Selangor. The ODGV is a
Development installed eight units of small wind wind concentrator that concentrates the wind turbines rated between 5-100 kW for the rural
speed to the optimum angle when hitting the
communities in Sabah and Sarawak (Rajkumar
wind turbine; it also increases the oncoming
et al., 2011). Wind-solar hybrid street lamp
wind speed by 1.5 times thereby improving the
posts with ODGV were also installed by Assoc.
performance of the vertical axis wind turbine
Prof. Dr Chong Wen Tong and his research
(Figure 2.8-3).
team at the University of Malaya, Mid Valley
Figure 2.8-3 Installed wind-solar hybrid street lamp post with (ODGV) at Mid Valley, Kuala Lumpur
Building integrated wind turbine is a technology that presents a high potential for
as hybrid systems have good potential as
the integration of wind turbine within the built
reported by Chong et al. (2011) (Figure 2.8-4).
environment. In Malaysia, wind turbines that 58
are built and integrated on high-rise buildings