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Iberdrola Acquires 1.5 GW of Wind Rights in Romania
April 20, 2010
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Bucharest, Romania [RenewableEnergyWorld.com] Iberdrola Renovables has been granted a license by Romanian grid operator Transelectrica to connect a total of 1.5 gigawatts (GW) of wind power to its national electricity grid.
The company intends to begin construction this year on its first wind facility in Romania, the 80-MW Mihai Viteazu farm.
The license will pave the way for the company to roll out its Dobruja Project, the most ambitious wind-power project of its kind developed in the country to date, which is expected to include the start-up of a series 50 wind farms in the region of Dobruja, in southeastern Romania. Iberdrola plans to build these wind farms between 2011 and 2017. Iberdrola Renovables is implementing all its projects in Romania with the company Eolica Dobrogea (owned by the Swiss engineering group NEK and the Romanian companies C-Tech and Rokura). This company has been given the task of developing the projects – planning and obtaining the construction permits – while Iberdrola Renovables is responsible for constructing and operating the wind farms. The company intends to begin construction this year on its first wind facility in Romania, the 80-MW Mihai Viteazu farm. This particular project does not fall within the new power concession granted by the Romanian government, but will also be located in the region of Dobruja. The farm is expected to be brought into service in January 2011. 2009 saw Iberdrola Renovables open its first office in the Romanian capital, Bucharest, as part of its ongoing plan to cement its presence in Eastern Europe. The company already has operating wind farms in Poland (161 MW) and Hungary (50 MW), and is working on projects in Estonia (where it is implementing the country’s largest wind farm at 150 MW) and Bulgaria. It is also in the process of taking wind measurements in Russia.
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regarding proposed "Windfarm"
Cost of farm -------------- 160M Euro
Annual return from energy supplied ------- 220k Euro
which is less than 0.2 % of cost returned p.a. ?!
This is not energy supply, it is energy "laundering".
Meanwhile swea.co.uk will have us believe that they provide a
return of 200 to 300% p.a. !?!
Why invest in anything else ! ? I think this was how HBOS (RBoS?)
was sunk by American estate agents ? And now it appears that "Iberdrola" are doing it to wafer-thin Romania - but with EU funds, of course. And I have shown relevant offices in the EU offices these facts. Might as well hug trees.
The disparity between this and the 5%p.a. readily available from a TAD (Turbin-Altr. Device) whose design recognizes fundamental realities, is accounted-for very well by the factors below.
A) Economy of Size
B) Mode of operation
C) Betz limit (ANY object placed in a wind causes the wind to slow to
get around it. This effect can be taken into account and,
effectively, reduced quite a bit)
D) The bigger the "TAD" the less able it is to face a veering wind,
and the bigger problem from "Wind shear", i.e. windspeed changes a lot
over 40 m ? of height.
Explanations:
A) Economy of Size
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TADs have an unusual "Economy of Size",
The cost of facing a given area of weather, is necklace-shaped
function of (log) Size - diameter - of the TADs deployed.
This is because the two components (T and A) have Opposite "Economy of Size".
The lowest cost/m^2 is for sizes where the T costs about the same as the A. This happens at around 1m dia. for a very efficient T, and just under this dia. the gear-ration can be 1:1.
Starting at this best size where cost of TAD = 1+1 Wads, then either doubling size to replace 4, or halving and making 4, the cost will be seen to change as 2, 2.5, 4.25. 8.125 and so on. bertdotwindonatgmaildotcom