What’s blowing in March 9, 2009
Posted by CamdenKiwi in : renewable energy , trackbackReading on the wind power industry:
The Guardian reports that the British Wind Energy Association is looking to the government for support, while the City predicts a decline of 20% in the industry this year.
Trials based in Warwick suggest that small turbines attached to buildings aren’t very useful, and that the standard data for wind strength across the UK probably overestimates. They’re keen to point out that this doesn’t apply windfarms in suitable locations or offshore, and suggest that there’s a lot of work to be done on improving an immature industry.
Two of the largest wind companies, American Clipper Windpower and WPD, are bidding to build a very large windfarm off the coast of Hastings. At 1.35GW, it will be as large as the entire installed capacity of the UK was as recently as October 2005. 10MW turbines are very big indeed, and interesting to see they’re planning to design them in the UK.
And a useful list of engineering topics to swot up on before I embark on this course.
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