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RE-POWERING
bought the wind farm in 2002 and has owned and operated it ever since. As a result the Edwards family are shareholders in the group.
Between 2009 and 2011, the group invested £11.8 million re-powering the windfarm, replacing ten 400kW turbines with four machines and more than doubling the total installed capacity of the site to 9.2MW of wind power. For the lifetime of the windfarm, the group will contribute at least £9,200 per year (rising with inflation) to a community fund. This fund is controlled by a committee of local people and used to support community initiatives.
In this case the windfarm was repowered after 18 years of being operational. But for developers and onshore asset managers the question in when to repower if that is the option.
DECISION MAKING Brodies LPP, a recognised UK Law on onshore wind projects recognises that the decision to repower depends on financial performance of the existing windfarm (output of existing turbines; subsidies; maintenance costs; expiring warranties), weighed against what could be achieved using new turbines and the cost of removing the old turbines and erecting the new ones. This in turn will depend upon re-powering policy and what will be permitted – e.g. with a hub height of 135m, rotor diameter of 126m and a total height of 198m, the Enercon E-126 can generate up to 7.58MW.
Enercon has extensive expertise and many years of experience in the field of project development and offers its customers comprehensive support during the entire project planning stage. They provide information and advice on request on possible operating company structures, preparation of leases and lease allocation formulas as well as project organisation ahead of new windfarm projects.
Their range of services includes the creation of the farm layout plan, access road plan, design of the grid connection, substation, access roads and crane platforms as well as creation of risk evaluation reports, turbulence analyses, stability analyses, prognoses of yield, noise and shadow casting and wind analyses and profitability forecasts.
GLOBAL REACH
German based, the company covers the entire wind energy value-added chain with factories in Germany, Portugal, Brazil, Turkey, France, Sweden and Austria, more than 50 service companies and 37 sales offices worldwide, making them unique in wind industry.
COMPANY HISTORY AND EXPERIENCE Enercon has been among the top producers of wind energy converters for nearly 30 years now. Two of the key contributing factors to the company’s success are innovation and quality, having over 26,360 Wind Turbines and 43GW capacity installed worldwide.
In the UK the company has an installed capacity of over 1.2GW, while over the last two years they’ve supplied 18% of the onshore wind turbine market and were the first manufacturer to develop a re- powering project in the UK.
With a support staff of 270 the company is focused to supply the best wind turbine solutions for Single WEC, On-site Generation and Multi WEC projects.
Enercon
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