After many months of planning and hard work from all parties the Hamilton Wentworth Catholic District School Board is the proud owner of six Daisy DS3000 three kilowatt vertical axis wind turbines and two Daisy DS300 hybrid solar and wind off grid lighting systems. Each turbine comes with a Logic Energy monitoring and display package that allows teachers and students to access data from the turbines and other sensors in real time over the internet. Morris Hucal, Principal of Programs and driving force behind the boards decision to install the turbines, states that the real benefit is not so much the power being generated by the turbines but the teaching opportunity for the students.

“The turbines not only symbolize our boards commitment to the environment but also provide a very visible and interactive way for our students to learn about sustainability.”

Morris also states that “There is a real need for our students to understand where energy comes from and the costs, both environmentally and financially, associated with wasting energy.”

Installer: Daisy Energy, Ontario, Canada.
http://www.daisyenergy.ca/

Logic Energy recently installed monitoring systems for over 700kWp worth of photovoltaic panels installations managed by Thameswey Energy Ltd.

Thameswey Energy working on behalf of Woking Council required an independent system able to monitor the PV energy production, PV efficiency and the electricity consumption per building and be able to access all data via one portal.

Already they are seeing the benefits of a live monitoring system to provide them with production and consumption figures, along with alert features to assist them in minimising downtime and maximising on their ROI.

Some of the building also monitoring import electricity on top of solar energy generation. Goldsworth Primary School is a perfect example of this type of installations, as you can see here they generate well over their energy usage: here.

If you would like more information on the launch of our Domestic PV system please contact logic@logic-energy.com or call 0141 585 6496.

Logic Energy are increasing their global market share with Logic monitoring devices now being used in “25” countries worldwide across the USA, South America and Europe.  

We are delighted to announce a new continent to our export map with Logic Energy wind monitoring devices now being supplied through ESG Green Energy and Tecnico, who specialise in the maintenance and installation of wind, solar and hydro systems to telecommunications and navigation sites across New Zealand.

The telecommunication sector has seen a remarkable increase in the number of installations worldwide in the last five years, often in extremely remote areas resulting in difficult and costly maintenance and servicing contracts to power them.  The industry serves over four billion customers with an average of 1.5lines each and generates 183million tons of CO2 emissions annually.  This amounts to 0.7% of global emissions.  There is now a cost driven focus on reducing direct and indirect CO2 emission through improving efficiencies and reducing indirect energy consumption.  Networks are normally powered at all times, even though their usage varies with outputs generally lower at night times and seasonal site variations affecting energy inputs.  

MD Eduardo Estelles commented “We are delighted to be supplying Tecnico in New Zealand and are finding that telecoms are a growth sector for us.  In 2010 we provided WEC Chile with our LeNETmobile live remote monitor after being asked to specify the most efficient renewable power source for one of their telecoms clients who wanted to cut generator costs and have access to detailed real time reports for their Directors and Investors.  Given the prices of oil, it will become more and more common for telecoms companies to use hybrid renewable systems to power their appliances.  Indeed diesel theft is becoming an increasing problem from remote telecom installations due to price increases which is compounding this problem.”

“Our experience in Latin America has shown that monitoring of telecoms systems provides an effective solution to stakeholders who need to know potential wind and solar generation throughout the year in order to make significant maintenance cost savings.  Our colleagues in New Zealand have an excellent knowledge and understanding of the dynamics of power and energy and inputs into grid systems and it is a pleasure to supply our systems to them. 

Logic Energy’s exports now account for 40% of Logic’s turnover with turnover set to grow 100% this year. The newly released “Renewables 2011 Global Status Report” authored by Worldwatch Institute Senior Fellow Janet Sawin, shows that the renewable energy sector continues to perform well despite continuing economic recession, incentive cuts and low natural gas prices. The EU exceeded its 2010 targets for wind, solar PV, concentrating solar thermal power, and heating/heat pumps. Countries including Finland, Germany, Spain, and Taiwan raised their targets, and South Africa, Guatemala, and India, among others, introduced new ones. 

China led the world in installation of wind turbines and solar thermal systems and was the top hydropower producer in 2010.  The country added an estimated 29GW of grid-connected renewable capacity, for a total of 252 GW, an increase of 13% compared with 2009.  South America has also seen increasing investment of wind, hydropower and biomass with Brazil producing virtually all of the world’s sugar-derived ethanol.  

Logic is currently largely focusing their attentions in Europe with a view to looking to expand existing US sales in the near future. 

“The live data information our products deliver gives our customers security and peace of mind that their installations are delivering maximum outputs all of the time,” explained Eduardo.  “Customers are increasingly becoming addicted to checking that their investments are delivering and Logic Energy’s products deliver this reassurance to them.”

Logic Energy will is planning to run our next training day in January 2012.  

We welcome all renewable consultants; installers and manufacturers; to join us for this informative day where we will cover advances in monitoring technology for Wind and training techniques on wind site assessment and installation. For more information and to book your place please contact logic@logic-energy.com.  Places are limited and will be reserved on a first come first served basis. We look forward to welcoming you to our offices.

Minister for Enterprise Fergus Ewing visited Hillington Park Innovation Centre last month to meet some of Scotland’s up and coming, innovative technology companies.

Three exciting young businesses, Bridgeall, Dimensional Imaging and Logic Energy were presented to the Minister and as well as showing off their products and services, got a chance to discuss with Fergus Ewing some of the key challenges early stage companies face, when growing a business in the technology sector.

Bridgeall who design, develop and support integrated software systems across both the public and private sector reflected on a period of rapid growth over the last 2 – 3 years which has increased the team too.

Managing Director Stephen Beer said “We’ve worked hard for our success and we are very appreciative of all the help and support we’ve received from the advisers and staff in the Innovation Centre, which has really made a difference in building the company.”

Colin Urquhart of Dimensional Imaging provided a demonstration of the company’s specialist software system.  Colin said “The Minister was enthused by the demonstration of our 4-D Technology and wide application, including how we are utilising this in the gaming world.”

The software developed by Logic Energy provides live remote monitoring for renewable energy sources.  Mr Ewing has a real interest in clean energy and the renewable sector and welcomed the opportunity for a discussion with Eduardo Estelles the founder of the company.

The Minister also spent time with the on-site advisory team of Innovation Centres Scotland (ICS) who ran the Innovation Centre on behalf of MEPC, the owners of Hillington Park.  He was keen to hear about the excellent work that has taken place with the variety of companies located here over the 10 years since it was opened.
Mr Ewing said:

“The Scottish Government is committed to creating new jobs and to maintaining the highest quality of business support that will help Scottish companies reach their potential and break into growth markets.

”I was impressed by the businesses I met at Hillington Park Innovation Centre, and the range of products and services they offer. I wish everyone at this impressive facility every success in the future as they take forward their plans to grow their innovative enterprises.”

A quick video showing our LeNETmobile unit being manufactured in our ISO9001 facilities.

Learn more about LeNETmobile.

We will be appearing at the following events & exhibitions …

• Argyll Renewable Energy Show
  16th August 2011 in Oban, UK
• RenewableUK Annual Conference and Exhibition 2011
  25 – 27 October, 2011 in Manchester, UK
  Stand 109
• Ecobuild 2012
  20 – 22 March, 2012 in ExCeL London, UK
  Stand WP5

We have recently installed a monitoring system at Inverdee House, Aberdeen for the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA).

They are monitoring…

• 1 x Wind Turbine
• 2 x Solar arrays
• Wind Speed
• Solar Radiation

We were a finalist in the ‘Existing Performance Improvement’ award category.

“The company provides live remote monitoring systems for the renewable energy sector, providing reliable, robust fault detection and diagnostic systems which improve the performance and efficiency of wind power. Logic Energy has customers worldwide and include local authorities, wind energy consultants, installers and manufacturers. ”

They embarked upon a project to monitor ground wind erosion at Middle Anatolian Fields in Turkey. Measuring at 8 heights, they installed 8 anemometers which fed into 4 Logic Energy LeWL wind loggers.