September 21, 2004
A new site, the Gettysburg wind
tower, has been added to the WRAN. The tower in use there is a
50-meter NRG Systems tilt-up tower, unlike the microwave relay
towers in use elsewhere on the network. This site went into
action in July 2004, and data will be available on the web
shortly.
A second new site, at Murdo and
sponsored by the West Central Electric Cooperative, is in the
works. This site will use an existing microwave relay tower and
will have instruments at 50, 70 and 90 meters.
March 25, 2004
FPL Energy (Juno Beach, FL) donated $50,000 to the
WRAN
project to expand the network. The $50,000 check was recently
presented at South Dakota State
University by members of the
South Dakota Public
Utilities Commission. In the photo below, from left to
right, are Gary Hanson, Vice Chairman of the SDPUC; Bob Sahr,
Chairman of the SDPUC; Michael Ropp, WRAN project leader and
SDSU Professor of Engineering; and Jim Burg, SDPUC commissioner.
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This generous donation will
be used to add as many as seven new sites to the WRAN.
The locations of the new sites are still being
negotiated, he priority will be to expand coverage in
the western part of South Dakota. The new site
locations will be posted on this web site as they are
determined. The new sites will be equipped with
anemometers at 50, 70 and 90 meters above ground (the
present five sites only have 50 and 70 meter levels).
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