A Lille start-up has designed a wind turbine adapted to the urban environment.
It is compact and generates no noise or vibration.
This wind turbine can be installed under all buildings with a flat roof.
Combined with photovoltaic panels, it enables almost continuous energy production throughout the year.
Because the wind does not only blow in the countryside, the Lille start-up Unéole has designed a wind turbine model suitable for urban operation.
Compact and silent, it could even make Xavier Bertrand, the president of Hauts-de-France, change his mind about this mode of renewable energy production.
When he created Unéole in 2014, Quentin Dubrulle had the idea of developing an innovative student business creation project in the field of renewable energies.
The first model was also made by a group of Yncrea students in 2013. "It was a prototype based on linen, very efficient but lacking in sturdiness", explains the entrepreneur.
But the idea was there: to design a wind turbine without a mast, of reduced size, the least polluting and the most efficient to be used in an urban environment.
“No noise or vibration”
“The shape of the wind turbine is studied to obtain the best possible performance with the disturbed winds of cities.
It generates no noise or vibration, two imperatives for urban use,” continues Quentin Dubrulle.
In its second version, the one currently on the market, the Unéole wind turbine is made of aluminum and stainless steel, materials that give it the resistance that the V1 lacked.
And it is 100% made in Hauts-de-France: “The design office is located in Lille, the aluminum comes from Dunkirk, the stainless steel from Isbergues and the manufacturing is done between Linselles, la Madeleine and Ronchin” , assures the entrepreneur.
The market targeted by the start-up is very large since it includes all buildings with flat roofs.
Even if it is possible to install several wind turbines according to the surface available, the goal is above all, for the customers, to increase the share of renewable energies in their consumption.
An energy mix that Unéole anticipated by creating a platform combining its wind turbine and photovoltaic panels.
"It's a mixed platform that can produce energy almost all the time, day, night, winter and summer, and with a very low carbon cost," says Quentin Dubrulle.
In the state of the market and standards, Unéole's solution is not suitable for installation in private homes.
"For the moment, it would cost far too much in development to meet all the standards, all the rules and all the studies to be carried out upstream to release a machine approved for individuals", we recognize at Unéole.
Nevertheless, the project is in the cards recognizes the boss of Unéole: “In the short term, the new homes will have to be passive and we will have to find solutions to compensate for their consumption.
It is at this time that it will be necessary to be present on the market”.
Politics
New EPRs, extension of nuclear reactors and wind farms... Most of Emmanuel Macron's announcements
Politics
Environmentalists angry after the creation of a green label for nuclear power plants
Wind turbine
Energetic transition
Environment
Lille
Planet
0 comment
0 share
Share on Messenger
Share on Facebook
Share on Twitter
Share on Flipboard
Share on Pinterest
Share on Linkedin
Send by Mail
To safeguard
A fault ?
To print