Burradale Wind Farm Shetland Islands
Burradale Wind Farm Shetland Islands
Find out about the only windfarm currently operational on the Shetland Islands
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Shetland Islands are blessed with one of the world's finest exploitable
wind resources. Plans are currently underway for a huge
600MW wind farm on the islands with building to be started in 2012, however there is already one small wind farm on Shetland having amazing success. Per unit of installed capacity
Burradale Wind Farm is the most productive in the world.
The 3.68MW
Burradale
windfarm is located just a few miles outside Lerwick, the Shetland capital. Since opening in 2000, the turbines at this windfarm have had an average
capacity factor of 52%, and in 2005 averaged an incredible world record 57.9%. These data certainly bode well for the future success of the proposed 600MW
windfarm.
Burradale Wind Farm was constructed and is operated by
Shetland Aerogenerators Ltd. In 2000 three
Vestas V47 660kW turbines were installed with 47 metre rotors. They were commissioned on 17th December 2000. Pictured above the turbines are called from left to right: Mina, Betsy, and Brenda.
The second phase of the Burradale project saw two new
Vestas V52 850kW turbines added (called Sally and Karen) in early 2003.
The completed
wind farm has a total output of 3.68MW saving 6,200 tonnes per years of
carbon dioxide emissions, and powering up to 2000 local homes.
Article Last Modified: 11:01, 19th Jan 2007
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