Earls Hall WindFarm Public Enquiry due to start 29/7/09

pepsi · Earls Hall WindFarm Public Enquiry due to start 29/7/09

Following the appeal by NPower against the unanimous decision of TDC to refuse planning permission for 5 large scale Wind Turbines at Earls Hall Farm, dates for the public enquiry have now been announced.

The Public Enquiry will commence on 29th July 10:00 am at the Council Offices in Weeley and will last for 5 days.

Bearing in mind the large banks of Wind Turbines we already now have in the process of being built off the Clacton/Holland/Jaywick coast, is there really a need to possibly blight the lives of more than 300 households by building another 5 Turbines on shore at this location ?

amenity2

Hello Pepsi,
There is plenty of evidence from Norwegian contructors to show that wind farms built on land are not as good at producing electricity as the builders suggest.

Deep sea platforms are shown to be far superior and can pay for their construction.

Subsidy might be an explanation for the builders to show such keenness.

pepsi

Hi Amenity,

Without a doubt, dubsidy is the main consideration in this case.

However with the governments drive for more renewable energy and meeting targets, their total disregard for the effects of onshore sites on the population, landscape and environment may well mean that this site could go ahead regardless of it's inefficiency or even need within our locality.

I would ask all local people to attend this enquiry to show their opposition for this onshore site.

amenity2

Trouble is Pepsi, does local opposition amount to "material consideration".

It would be nice to think it does.

Taxpayers money being syphoned of right in front of our councillors noses.

Come on TDC show some leadership get the evidence of poor performance to show that their (the developers) credulity is unreliable.

The UK economic health is low at the moment, just the time to show a way of not wasting the public purse.

amenity2

The Germans are delving into deeper waters with this trial run and the reason must be the return on investment.

We should put on hold our land based installations untill it is clear they will perform pound for pound with the new deep sea investments.

"Six giant “tripods”, the foundations for the 5 MW Multibrid M5000 wind turbines, now rise out
of the sea some 45 kilometers off the coast of Borkum. The AREVA Mulribrid team has been
hard at work since mid-April. The team of approximately 70 persons installed the six gigantic
structures, each weighing over 700t, from on board the Odin, a jack-up barge necessary for
driving the piles and assembling the wind turbines. The platform’s four supporting columns
stand firmly on the seabed and it ranges some meters above the surface of the sea to
accommodate the equipment for construction work such as vibrators, under-water hammers,
diving station, workshop and office container etc. Odin will be replaced by the larger jack-up
barge JB-114 for the subsequent installation of the wind turbines.
Ongoing activities at sea can be followed in the Internet. A webcam positioned on the
research platform FINO1 and directed at the construction site provides up-to-the-minute
pictures. They can be viewed at www.alpha-ventus.de.
The construction of a total of twelve wind turbines is planned for 2009. By the end of the
year, six Areva Multibrid M5000 and six REpower 5M turbines are planned to be in operation
supplying environment-friendly power. The expected volume of power generated will be
equivalent to the consumption of 50,000 households.
Print-ready pictures are available for free download at:
http://bildarchiv.alpha-ventus.de

amenity2

From that last post of mine information can be gathered by interested parties,

www.alpha-ventus.de.

The Nowegians too have shown the viability of deep sea investment with their floating windmills in much deeper waters than this German effort.