We all had a great time on the boat trip to see the wind turbines. There were 30 of them in all about 5 miles off the coast of Rhyl, North Wales. It took about 30 minutes to get to them by boat. A very powerful, jet powered vessel took us out there. The same boat that services the wind turbines ferrying personnel to work on the gearboxes of the machines that often break down.

The “windmills” cost about 1 Million pounds each to build and then produce a max power of 2 Mega Watts of electricity. On a good day then that is 60 MW of Power.

The farm appears to be to be a primer (along with one scheduled for Llandudno Bay) for a massive 200 Turbine development called Gwynt y Môr (details below). It is said that it would output 750MW which to put into comparison with nearby Wylfa Nuclear station (outputs about 1000 MW on a good day).

Turbines: up to 200
Power MW capacity: 750MW
Homes equivalent: 500,000
Developer: npower
Developer contact: gwyntymor@npower-renewables.com
Developer website: http://www.npower-renewables.com
Planning status: in planning
Planning office: Planning Department,Conwy County Borough Council, Bodlondeb, Conwy, North Wales, LL32 8DUN Powers Website was down when I checked today Stats here
source http://www.yes2wind.com

Info on Wylfa

Source: http://www.britishnucleargroup.com
Oh yes and pollution problem for 20, 000 years!

I’m looking forward to an interesting excursion this evening to some offshore windmills close to where we all live. The development is known as  the “North Hoyle” windfarm off the North Wales Coast. The trip is being hosted for the Colwyn Bay Round Table group of which I am a member by NPower. I have always looked upon alternative energy sources as important but the way that the company has presented plans for their next development (outside my bedroom window) has caused some eyebrows to raise amongst some of the most usually sympathetic supporters. The next proposed development is to be sited somewhere called Constable Bank or Rhyl Flats where exactly has escaped me because the the alligation that the company have mislead the public over the exact location (which is in practice right off Colwyn Bay and Llandudno). Llandudno being the busiest tourism town in North Wales. As such I think we need to proceed with care! Anyway we are being given the full spiel from an Npower PR man so I should be in a good knowledgable position to comment this time tomorrow.