Wind building design

Abstract

The Canary Islands are one of the best places in Spain in wind resource, but with a limited land area 7529 km2, a high rate of population (2,103.992 people in January 2009), a high degree of protected land 42.2% of the territory, very deep waters, and a huge dependence on foreign petroleum for 99% of energy consumed. We have to look for urban wind energy as an opportunity to extract energy without occupying valuable and scarce land, using own resource and diversifying the energy basket. We will study different existing buildings designs and will make our own proposals in order to assess, for which we will use specific software.