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Re: Renwable energy in the area
« Reply #60 on: March 09, 2022, 01:56:23 pm »
Plans for a £590million tidal lagoon in North Wales are forging ahead following two milestone developments.

Mostyn SeaPower Ltd, a subsidiary of the Port of Mostyn, revealed it is are now going out to tender for review of the initial design and costings for the scheme that would create 300 construction jobs and employ 35 people during its operational life of more than 100 years.

They have also embarked on a second year of ecological surveys of the priority species of fish, birds and mammals in the Dee Estuary.

cont https://www.northwalespioneer.co.uk/news/19979857.north-wales-tidal-energy-scheme-surges-ahead-big-milestones/

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Re: Renwable energy in the area
« Reply #61 on: March 22, 2022, 09:56:20 am »
A major tidal project off Anglesey will benefit from £31m of funding in what is likely to be the last large grant from the EU’s regional funding programme.

Climate Change Minister Julie James confirmed the funding would be given to Menter Môn for the Morlais infrastructure project.

The Morlais Infrastructure development aims to further the development of tidal power generation technologies by providing grid connectivity.

Climate Change Minister Julie James said: “We want to establish Wales as the location of choice for tidal stream developers and the supply chain.
https://www.wales247.co.uk/major-31m-tidal-project-planned-for-anglesey?IYA-mail=a05105fc-304d-4c50-9807-edab51f779a4


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Re: Renwable energy in the area
« Reply #62 on: April 04, 2022, 10:34:56 am »
£7 billion tidal lagoon scheme off North Wales coast gets backing of council
The project could create 5,000 jobs, Denbighshire council heard

“If this got off the ground, and this is not what this motion is about, it would be dealt with at a higher level. You are talking vast sums of money. The carrot dangler for Denbighshire and Conwy is the community development if it did happen as a project.”

He added: “I’ve seen the business case that would have to come from the private sector: 5,000 construction jobs, benefits to the tourist industry when it’s completed.

"Whether it happens in our lifetime, who knows? But at the end of the day, the Welsh Government are on the hook with it, so what I want is Denbighshire to put a marker in the sand that we are forward-thinking, and we want to be on the starting block and involved in the discussion if they progress.”

cont https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/7-billion-tidal-lagoon-scheme-23198777

Today's story appears to be showing a photo quite different from the previous photo, ( on page 4 ) it looks like box like structures linked together, and nothing like the original model? 

Massive North Wales tidal lagoon project would bring 22,000 jobs, says developer as scale of scheme is revealed
Henry Dixon says the lagoon could generate enough power for every home in Wales.

cont  https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/massive-north-wales-tidal-lagoon-23544863

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Re: Renwable energy in the area
« Reply #63 on: April 05, 2022, 09:56:39 am »
update and comments from the above story.............

Huge £7 billion tidal lagoon plan for North Wales divides opinion - here's what you had to say
Readers have debated the merits of the massive scheme

cont https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/huge-7-billion-tidal-lagoon-23593551

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Re: Renwable energy in the area
« Reply #64 on: May 25, 2022, 11:58:29 am »
Further offshore windfarm proposal may affect North Wales land owners

BP AND EnBW have recently submitted their Environmental Impact Assessment scoping request to the Planning Inspectorate and Natural Resources Wales for the Mona Offshore Windfarm.

The proposed wind farm has a proposed capacity of 1.5 gigawatts, comprised of up to 107 individual turbines, and will be located approximately 15 miles off the North Wales coast.

This is positive news for the UK’s energy supply situation, but will cause concern for individual land and property owners potentially impacted by this additional scheme in an area already significantly affected by new infrastructure proposals.

As well as wind turbines off the coast, Mona will require new electricity cables and a substation for transportation of the power generated from the turbines into the existing onshore transmission network.

cont  https://www.northwalespioneer.co.uk/news/20163968.offshore-windfarm-proposal-may-affect-north-wales-land-owners/

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Re: Renwable energy in the area
« Reply #65 on: September 06, 2022, 01:05:05 pm »
Chatting with my sister, over the weekend, who lives in Brittany, we moaned about wind turbines, and how both of us have to live with the spoilt view, but consoled ourselves with the green energy supplied  &shake&  later I heard on TV a snippet on how Global warming is affecting our wind power, a quick search found this.........

Through summer and early autumn 2021, Europe experienced a long period of dry conditions and low wind speeds. The beautifully bright and still weather may have been a welcome reason to hold off reaching for our winter coats, but the lack of wind can be a serious issue when we consider where our electricity might be coming from.

To meet climate mitigation targets, such as those to be discussed at the upcoming COP26 event in Glasgow, power systems are having to rapidly change from relying on fossil fuel generation to renewables such as wind, solar and hydropower. This change makes our energy systems increasingly sensitive to weather and climate variability and the possible effects of climate change.

That period of still weather badly affected wind generation. For instance, UK-based power company SSE stated that its renewable assets produced 32% less power than expected. Although this may appear initially alarming, given the UK government?s plans to become a world leader in wind energy, wind farm developers are aware these low wind ?events? are possible, and understanding their impact has become a hot topic in energy-meteorology research.

Read on  https://theconversation.com/what-europes-exceptionally-low-winds-mean-for-the-future-energy-grid-170135

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Re: Renwable energy in the area
« Reply #66 on: September 06, 2022, 01:27:33 pm »
Just yesterday I was talking to someone about the wind farms and he wasn't a fan of them.      Whether what he told me is correct or not, I can't confirm it, but he said that the blades on the windmills have to be replaced at certain intervals.   When they are replaced they cannot be recycled but have to be disposed of as landfill.    If that is correct it makes a mockery of renewable energy.

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« Reply #67 on: September 07, 2022, 10:02:47 am »
I am not a fan of windfarms either. They put turbines on the hills at the back of where I lived in Sanquhar. They applied for a small number which was obtained. They later applied to extend this and it will be a large number of them up there shortly. While I was there I saw just how much is involved in creating the windfarm. They have to build access roads on the hills to be able to construct the turbines. These remain in place after they have been built as it is necessary for them to have access. The turbines require a huge amount of concrete  to be put in place.

https://www.freeingenergy.com/math/wind-turbine-weight-pound-mwh-gwh-m148/

https://energyskeptic.com/2020/900-tons-of-material-to-build-just-1-windmill/

There are sites which state it takes 30,000 tons of cement for just one turbine.

Then they put a building up on a hill for the workers to have somewhere to eat and drink, plus rest while they are on site. The one built locally remained in place after the initial construction. This was because they knew they would build more later presumably.

Getting the bits of the turbines up there was a problem as they were so large they had to do it at night and close the main road. The noise was horrendous. I had no sleep for 3 weeks while they brought the blades etc along the road. That was just for one bit of it. They did a lot of damage, knocking over lamposts, damage to walls and an old building and burst the water main along the lane. The lorries were racing up a narrow country lane and this had to be widened to allow them to get up there.

What was a lovely outlook became an industrial site. Most of the local hills were covered in turbines eventually. It is a fact that the turbines need to have the blades replaced regularly as they are made of Chinese steel. This doesn't last very long and disintegrates.

I think one of the attractions of putting windfarms up is the amount of grants given to the landowner. In the case of Sanquhar, the local landowner is the Duke of Buccleuch. He could be seen racing up and down the lane in his Bentley. By all accounts he is doing very nicely from the windfarms on his land.

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Re: Renwable energy in the area
« Reply #68 on: September 07, 2022, 12:41:04 pm »
Just yesterday I was talking to someone about the wind farms and he wasn't a fan of them.      Whether what he told me is correct or not, I can't confirm it, but he said that the blades on the windmills have to be replaced at certain intervals.   When they are replaced they cannot be recycled but have to be disposed of as landfill.    If that is correct it makes a mockery of renewable energy.

It's not correct.  As this article shows, they can be recycled, but it's not easy. 
Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.  ― Michel de Montaigne

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Re: Renwable energy in the area
« Reply #69 on: September 07, 2022, 01:14:34 pm »
Hugo the Blades have a life span of at least 20 years. They can be recycled but not easy,  what I would say thank god for turbines as my lad as well as a load of other lads from this area are kept in jobs,  nothing else in this area for them job wise and they can afford to buy a house.

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Re: Renwable energy in the area
« Reply #70 on: September 07, 2022, 01:42:36 pm »
They must be very well paid Norman if they can afford to buy a home in this area.    Even those so called affordable homes are out of the price range of most young locals

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Re: Renwable energy in the area
« Reply #71 on: September 07, 2022, 02:38:37 pm »
Wales can be 'leading offshore renewable power station in the UK' - with Anglesey leading the way
Report from Marine Energy Wales said there was ?ever increasing certainty? about the future of marine energy deployments in Welsh waters

More than ?600m is projected to be invested in the marine energy sector in Wales over the next five years according to a ?state of the sector? report. The report from Marine Energy Wales said there was ?ever increasing certainty? about the future of marine energy deployments in Welsh waters - from floating offshore wind to the Morlais tidal demonstration zone off the coast of Anglesey, which is now officially under construction.

The report shows that the sector - which currently employs around 420 full time workers in Wales - continues to grow, albeit with a slight slowdown in rate, but this is expected to pick up in the coming years.

It states: ?Beyond decarbonising our own energy supply, the greatest potential benefit of the marine energy sector lies in the expansion to the point where energy and expertise can be exported. Wales?s unique waters are blessed with abundant tidal stream, tidal range, wave, and deep-water wind resources. Wales has the capacity to become the leading offshore renewable power station in the UK.?

cont https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/wales-can-leading-offshore-renewable-24951342

PS Just remembered reading about courses at Llandrillo college on power engineering https://www.gllm.ac.uk/courses/power-engineering-wind-level-3

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Re: Renwable energy in the area
« Reply #72 on: September 14, 2022, 10:21:04 am »
In the above post I mentioned [reading about courses at Llandrillo college on power engineering] this mornings Pioneer has an interesting article explaining more on the subject...........

THE UK?s first wind turbine blade repair apprentice has begun his training at Wales' only turbine training centre, situated at Coleg Llandrillo?s Rhos-on-Sea campus.

Niall Mirza, 27, from Colwyn Bay (WTG Offshore) will spend the first of three years of his apprenticeship training at the college site, before cutting his teeth on offshore wind turbines - Wales? biggest renewable energy source - for the final two years.

Niall said: ?I am extremely excited to be the first person to study for this apprenticeship in the UK.
?It is amazing to be a part of an industry which is so important, especially at this moment in time.?

Niall was joined at the specialist renewable energy centre this week by eight new wind turbine (operational and maintenance) apprentices from RWE, bringing the overall total up to 31.

Following a collaborative initiative between Grŵp Llandrillo Menai and WTG Offshore in the past six months, the blade repair apprenticeship has become a reality, and will now run alongside the college group?s wind turbine technician apprenticeship.

Mike Hodgson, founder of WTG Offshore and chief executive of the USA branch, said: ?Niall will spend the next three years as an apprentice.

?Year One will be mainly classroom-based, where he will learn key fundamentals: from blade repair, through reporting, to health and safety.

?During his second and third years, he will move into the field, where he will put the information he has learnt in the classroom to practical use, carrying out repair assessments on various blades.?

cont https://www.northwalespioneer.co.uk/news/21395967.colwyn-bay-man-uks-first-wind-turbine-blade-repair-apprentice-rhos-on-sea-campus/

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Re: Renwable energy in the area...Public examination
« Reply #73 on: September 20, 2022, 10:16:41 am »
THE public examination of the plans to build what will be the largest investment in renewable energy in Wales this decade is about to begin.

The dates for the examination of the Development Consent Order (DCO) for the Awel y M?r offshore wind farm, across the coast of Conwy, have been published by the UK Planning Inspectorate.

The first hearings are due to take place this week.

A preliminary meeting takes place at Venue Cymru in Llandudno today (September 20) to discuss procedural matters, with the first hearings following on the next two days.

The first of these two are to look at the draft DCO itself, which is the legal means by which projects of this scale are given the green light.

The second is to be an ?open floor hearing?, with registered interested parties invited to speak on any relevant topic of their choice.

A full timetable is also to be published setting out the dates of further hearings and deadlines for submission of written materials before the process draws to a close in March 2023.

RWE is driving the development of the largest offshore wind pipeline in the UK.

RWE has committed to investing ?50billion gross through to 2030 to expand its powerful and green generation capacity to 50 gigawatts, with about ?15 billion earmarked for the UK.

Read More  https://www.northwalespioneer.co.uk/news/22312481.examination-plans-wales-largest-renewables-investment-decade-set-begin/?ref=rss&IYA-reg=49560bcd-5a9c-47f0-8fc5-ba2e71710589

A preliminary meeting takes place at Venue Cymru in Llandudno today (September 20) to discuss procedural matters, with the first hearings following on the next two days.


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Re: Renwable energy in the area
« Reply #74 on: September 24, 2022, 10:02:48 am »
North Wales windfarm on UK Government's fast track list but Wylfa nuclear plant isn't
Uk Government has unveiled a Growth Plan with nearly 140 projects they want to accelerate

There is also a list of infrastructure projects which will be accelerated as rapidly as possible by the Government. These projects may benefit from acceleration through planning reform, regulatory reform, improved processes or other options to speed up their development and construction, including through development consent processes.

cont https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/north-wales-windfarm-uk-governments-25089058