Wind power for Yorkshire, Lancashire and South Staffs College REpower Systems is ...

Wind power for Yorkshire, Lancashire and South Staffs College REpower Systems is to supply wind turbines to Energiekontor UK’s wind farms at Withernwick in Yorkshire and Hyndburn on Oswaldtwistle Moor in Lancashire. Withernwick will consist of nine REpower MM82 turbines, whilst the slightly larger development at Hyndburn will consist of twelve MM82 turbines. The turbines at these sites each have a rated capacity of 2.05 MW. Construction is due to start in the second half of the year for Hyndburn and the first half of 2012 for Withernwick. The sites are both scheduled for completion in 2012. The Energiekontor Group has built 74 wind farms to date, comprising over 450 wind turbines and a total power output of around 500 MW and including two wind farms in the UK. Since its inception in 2003, REpower UK has become one of the UK’s fastest growing wind turbine manufacturers, with a 12% share of the total wind power market in 2009. The company says it has reached the 500 MW watershed for installed wind turbines, and now sits at fourth in the wind turbine manufacturing market in the UK. Meanwhile, the government has given the go-ahead for South Staffordshire College’s Rodbaston Campus to host the first on-site wind turbines in the West Midlands. The College will become the first further education establishment in the country to be powered by a wind project of this size. The pair of 2 MWwind turbines, both measuring 126 m from base to tip, will be constructed on land at the Rodbaston Campus by developer Wind Direct, and will supply green electricity direct to the College. Finally, the proposed 33-turbine, 99 MW Dunmaglass wind farm to be located 20 miles south of Inverness has been approved.