Ideas Man - Web Design & Creativity North Wales » renewable energy http://www.ideasman.com Blog of a North Wales Web Designer Sat, 04 Sep 2010 14:51:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 New Website for Cartrefi Conwy http://www.ideasman.com/2008/10/new-website-for-cartrefi-conwy/ http://www.ideasman.com/2008/10/new-website-for-cartrefi-conwy/#comments Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:38:43 +0000 info http://www.ideasman.com/?p=100 The new website for Cartrefi Conwy went live today. The site is fully bi-lingual and we are looking forward to some constructive feedback from site users.

Cartrefi Conwy have taken over the ownership and management of the social housing stock from Conwy Council. This very positive move should mean an increase in the standards of the housing stock and better customer care due to the focus of Cartrefi Conwy, the quality and experience of the board members and an associated bonus in funding from central government.

Livetech are very pleased to be associated with the website of this dynamic forward looking organization. Livetech have designed and implemented the new website in close association with key Cartrefi Conwy staff.

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]]> http://www.ideasman.com/2008/10/new-website-for-cartrefi-conwy/feed/ 0 New Sign Goes Up at Our Greenfield Road Studios in Colwyn Bay http://www.ideasman.com/2008/08/new-sign-goes-up-at-our-greenfield-road-studios-in-colwyn-bay/ http://www.ideasman.com/2008/08/new-sign-goes-up-at-our-greenfield-road-studios-in-colwyn-bay/#comments Thu, 21 Aug 2008 09:13:32 +0000 info http://www.ideasman.com/?p=85 Big Day as the New minisite brand goes up on the wall at Greenfield Road in Colwyn Bay.

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]]> http://www.ideasman.com/2008/08/new-sign-goes-up-at-our-greenfield-road-studios-in-colwyn-bay/feed/ 0 Trip to Wind Turbines http://www.ideasman.com/2006/09/trip-to-wind-turbines/ http://www.ideasman.com/2006/09/trip-to-wind-turbines/#comments Wed, 20 Sep 2006 19:10:47 +0000 info http://www.ideasman.users44.donhost.co.uk/?p=9 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

Construction start: 1963
Construction end: 1971
Start operation: 1971
End operation: 2010
Defuelling start: 2010
Defuelling end: 2012
Care and maintenance preparations start: 2009
Care and maintenance preparations end: 2025

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

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]]> http://www.ideasman.com/2006/09/trip-to-wind-turbines/feed/ 0 The Jury is Out http://www.ideasman.com/2006/09/the-jury-is-out/ http://www.ideasman.com/2006/09/the-jury-is-out/#comments Fri, 15 Sep 2006 13:22:18 +0000 info http://www.ideasman.users44.donhost.co.uk/?p=7 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.

GWYNT Y MOR FACTS
200 wind turbines 8-9 miles off the coast
120 new jobs during operational life
500,000 homes could get electricity from wind power
Source: npower renewables

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