Twenty-six old turbines at Hagshaw Hill wind farm will be replaced with 14 new, larger turbines.
By Douglas FraserWind energy has entered a new era on a hill in South Lanarkshire, as the first generation of turbines are dismantled.
Scottish Power Renewables says the 14 larger turbines they want to install on the site near the village of Douglas will produce five times as much power as the 26 old turbines they are replacing.However, there are industry concerns that re-powering will be delayed and made much more costly by lengthy planning processes.
"We've been operating this site for the best part of 30 years," he said. "We know everything about the site from an environmental perspective and we need to take the information and use it to accelerate planning of repowering projects.", published this year by the Scottish government, say that future planning approvals should be "in perpetuity".
The current stage of the process at Hagshaw Hill, which began earlier this month, is the dismantling of the turbines. On Wednesday, the seventh of 26 turbines was being removed, as the sixth was taken away by trucks.Ryan Walker, project manager for crane and transport specialist Forsyth of Denny, says it is not about demolition but reversing the process of construction.
Re-powering will gather pace across Scotland as other turbines reach the end of an expected working life of 25 years, extending for some of them up to 30 years.They suffer from wear and tear in components and weather damage to the blades, as well as being much less efficient than the turbines that will replace them.
ReBlade is one company, based in Glasgow and Dumfriesshire, with plans to build a re-purposing factory. Run by Fiona and Steven Lindsay, former Scottish Power employees, its demonstration projects include park benches and furniture.It is announcing today a contract with SSE to use former blades as shelters in Dundee for electric vehicle charging points.
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