Argentina Will Produce Massive Wind Power Turbines
Argentina will produce massive wind power turbines. This country of South America is using some of the biggest generators with de Eolis-15, that has 1,5 megawatts of power and almost 80 meters tall.
Río Negro and Neuquén, two of the southeast provinces in Argentina, along with the Science and Technology Department from Cutral-Có and Plaza Huincul-both municipalities with oil royalties- have joined each other to develop the wind turbine Eolis-15, designed by Invap to make the most of high speed winds.
This ambitious project is being financed by Rio Negro, who has already invested almost a million dollars in the project. Meanwhile Neuquén and the local municipalities will collaborate with money for the test and settings of prototypes until get the international homologation.
It will cost no less than 15 millions dollars and will take about three years to achieve. The final goal is to export wind energy, and some corporations are thinking to establish these turbines also in Chubut, Santa Cruz, and Tierra del Fuego. Since the demand for turbines around the word is high, it is a good opportunity for exportation. Nevertheless, it would be great for Argentina to count on these turbines to produce energy for its own territory.
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Via LaNación
Image credit: INVAP
Standard size of wind turbines over here in Germany is about 3 Megawatts now.. they’re working on a 6 MW plant. Biggest problem seems to be the length of the blades - cannot be transported on any road.. have to create two parts..
Correct.
Enercon E-112
Until end of 2007 a total of 9 units has been installed, the last ones with 6 MW rated power, 114 m rotor diameter and up to 124 m hub height. Currently the first units of the E-112 successor, the E-126 with 127 m rotor diameter and 135 m hub height are installed at various sites in Germany.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enercon
World’s Largest Wind Turbine (7+ Megawatts)
The world’s largest wind turbine is now the Enercon E-126. This turbine has a rotor diameter of 126 meters (413 feet). The E-126 is a more sophisticated version of the E-112, formerly the world’s largest wind turbine and rated at 6 megawatts. This new turbine is officially rated at 6 megawatts too, but will most likely produce 7+ megawatts (or 20 million kilowatt hours per year).
http://www.metaefficient.com/news/new-record-worlds-largest-wind-turbine-7-megawatts.html
I’m all for the personal wind generator. On the roof hooked to the grid and presto. Maybe some day NYC would power Albany!
Spain has just installed a large thermo-solar plant that concentrates solar energy into a block of salt, which stores the energy for later use to generate steam for conventional turbines. Sounds like a promising solution.
Yes, just imagine everyone building one of those on their rooftops
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Bill, in Minnesota there is legislation in place that allows for community based energy development especially with regards to wind. It is pretty popular and Nebraska subsequently wrote and passed legislation that mirrors Minnesota’s. CBED, as it is called in MN.(for community based energy development) has been around for a long time. Basically what CBED does is allow for investment and ownership opportunities on fairly large projects. The average size CBED project is 20 MW’s in MN but there are some proposed that are in the 300 MW range. At a couple million dollars a MW installed this is significant investment opportunities which keeps more of the money generated from being exported out of the state.
To others making statements regarding line loss and value relative to being able to dispatch wind. Although you obviously can’t dispatch wind, when wind projects are constructed over large geographical areas the capacity value of wind increases because of the ever changing wind speeds due to weather patterns over large geographical areas.
And the other point that was made regarding line loss. One of the beauties of wind is that there is an inherent value in being able to construct these projects relatively close to load. The ability to disperse wind in this manner has a lot of value relative to the transmission system. Minnesota has done studies that have indicated that huge investments in transmission infrastucture may be mitigated if more of a dispersed approach to constructing wind was taken.