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organisations, understanding what members want and showing how we can grow together.”
Mr Gray, 53, and his wife Lorraine, Managing Director of a hairdressing business, live at Worstead. They have one grown-up son.
AN EXPERIENCED BUSINESS BACKGROUND
Alan Barlow, EEEGR chairman, said: “We’re delighted to appoint Simon who brings a successful track record in both membership organisations and private sector industries. We believe he will bring the right leadership to grow EEEGR and further develop a coordinated energy supply chain in this region to ensure members benefit most from the multi-billion pound opportunities within the all-energy sector on our doorstep.”
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Demonstration Scheme. The scheme aims to support innovative companies to develop and demonstrate novel technologies that will lead to cost reduction in offshore wind energy, and increase deployment levels by 2020, and in the following decade.
Dr Trapp concluded: “There is a clear need to reduce costs and increase safety in offshore wind. We are delighted with the award of funding from the Offshore Wind Development and Demonstration scheme, which recognises both the innovative abilities of OP, and the need to develop access technology to meet the accessibility challenges that will be faced in future projects. NE England has vital strengths in offshore wind technology, and this funding will strengthen our ability to bring this exciting product to market and accelerate the development of MaXccess HBS in preparation for the coming construction, and operation, of Round 3 in the UK, and projects across the world.”
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KINGSPAN WIND TURBINES FIGHT FUEL POVERTY IN WESTRAY
As part of a £150k investment to help eradicate fuel poverty amongst local residents, energy cooperative Care4Energy has installed five high yield Kingspan Wind turbines on the island of Westray, Orkney.
ORKNEY BUSINESS RING - RENEWABLES
The new croft of 6KW Kingspan wind turbines were installed at neighbouring sites Breckowall and Quality Street by local cooperative Orkney Business Ring – Renewables. They are designed to produce more than 85,000kWh of renewable energy each year, which is being fed back into the grid to generate a new income stream from Feed-In Tariff (FiT) payments as well as an Export tariff for surplus electricity sold back to the grid.
Erik Firth, Manager at Orkney Business Ring adds: “Being a community cooperative ourselves, we were particularly excited to be working with Care4Energy on such a worthwhile project. This is the first stand-alone wind croft Orkney has ever seen and our team of accredited installers did a fantastic job in installing all five turbines within a week despite working in extremely wet and windy conditions. Our experts are now on hand to provide professional, fast response, local support when needed, so we can ensure continued optimum performance and a reliable income stream from the turbines.”
WIND TURBINE DESIGN
Aimed at rural domestic, small holdings and agricultural applications, the MCS certified Kingspan Wind KW6 turbines offer maximum energy capture due to their patented blade hinge design. The turbines’ blades pitch and cone to provide a unique over-speed protection system, eliminating the need for brakes and ensuring uninterrupted operation even in the strongest winds. With a downwind, self-regulating design, the turbines automatically track the wind
ANNUAL INCOME
The new wind turbines are creating a net annual income of around £25k, which is going straight towards helping the fuel poor on the island of Westray, funding a variety of energy saving and renewable energy measures for local residents’ homes, such as insulation, renewable heating and even energy surveys.
CARE4ENERGY
Comments engineer Colin Risbridger of Care4Energy: “We’re delighted that we’ve been able to find a novel and positive way to use the high winds we experience in the area for the good of others. Kingspan Wind turbines were the perfect choice for this particular project. They have a strong, reliable track record and deliver maximum results even in fierce wind conditions. In fact, the turbines are out-performing all expectations already. We were also particularly impressed with the ease of maintenance, and being on a remote island we can rest assured that we have a reliable, first class support service on the island from the team at the Orkney Business Ring.”
direction so there is no need for an active yaw control. Designed to class 1 with survival wind speeds of 54-70 m/s, they also provide a Reference Annual Energy (RAE) of 8,949 kWh at 5m/s (annual mean wind speed) and a five year product warranty as standard.
COLLABORATION
Local community organisation Energy Action Westray secured funding from Leader, The Energy Saving Trust and Energy Efficiency Design Awards to set up energy cooperative Care4Energy. The aim was not only to find a solution to relieve fuel poverty on Westray island, but to contribute to its ambition of providing 100 percent of its energy requirements from Renewables by 2012. Kingspan Wind turbines were specified based on the leading MCS approved energy yield figures for the high wind speeds at the two sites matched with the first rate, guaranteed service provided by the local professional team Orkney Business Ring Renewables.
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