Category: Turn Key Wind Farms
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Site visits and information management tools
This post complete the information of the previous article on how to plan a site visit for a renewable energy project. I will try to answer this question: what is the better tool to manage the information obtained on site? There are several very useful mobile apps that can help us finding the target locations…
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Wind Energy in Finland
One of the things I enjoy more in my job is that it gives me the possibility to work in several different countries. In the last months I’ve had the pleasure to visit several time Finland for a project developed by Neoen (the French developer that it’s about to launch its IPO) and Prokon. It’s…
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Wind Farm LIDAR topography
LIDAR topography is the best available solution available nowadays. We have used it in several wind farms and I’m enthusiast of the results. It can be used to define earthworks with great precision. Basically it is made with an airplane flying with a laser, a digital camera and a GPS. The laser “sweep” the requested…
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Wind farm standard layout
The components of a typical, utility size wind farm are: One or more rows of turbine perpendiculars to the prevailing wind direction, with a distance between them of 2 or more diameters. For instance, if the diameter of the rotor is 100 meters, the distance would be from 200 to 300 meters. This distance is…
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San Anton – a Wind Farm from cradle to completion
San Anton is a small wind farm (4 WTGs) located in Lillo, Toledo (Spain). I had the opportunity to follow this project from the beginning visiting the site very often. I collected several picture to show the main phases of a wind farm construction. First of all a met mast is installed, and wind data…