FEATURE SPONSOR STOKE & STAFFORDSHIRE FOCUS
FROM SITE FINDING TO ‘SOLAR WIND’
As a multi-disciplinary environmental and engineering consultancy, Wardell Armstrong has a real specialisation in the area of renewable and low carbon energy – including wind power.
Over the past fifteen years the firm’s wind energy experts have worked on hundreds of different schemes from single turbines to 50MW+ Section 36 applications - helping developers, large utilities, businesses, farm owners and public bodies with the design, development and construction of their wind projects.
WIDE-RANGING SERVICES The consultancy’s wide-ranging services include site finding, constraints mapping, feasibility and economic assessment, site design, foundation design and track layout, resource assessment, met mast procurement and MCP analysis, turbine selection, environmental impact assessment, planning applications, grid connection requests and acting as client engineer during construction.
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT Effective public consultation in this sometimes contentious area is often critically important, and the consultancy has a strong track record of using its understanding of local and national political sensitivities to engage successfully with local communities.
SOLAR WIND
The latest pioneering service from Wardell Armstrong for renewable energy developers and wind farm owners is “solar wind” – a new concept designed to optimise the full capacity of expensive grid connections by incorporating ground- mounted solar panels on the same site as wind turbines.
With planning permission becoming ever harder to secure, expensive grid connections also becoming increasingly constrained, and returns on wind turbines sometimes limited by the fact that they’re rarely running at full output, bolting on solar can make good commercial sense – taking advantage of a free grid connection, making good use of under-utilised capacity, maximising returns and enhancing overall sustainability.
WHAT’S INVOLVED?
Wardell Armstrong’s new solar wind service involves a feasibility assessment, site design, a financial assessment of potential returns, and (if positive) the handling of planning proposal submissions including further detailed assessments such as landscape, ecology and archaeology.
Wardell Armstrong
www.windenergynetwork.co.uk
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