ACCIONA has signed a certify to issue forth 34 wind turbines for a 102 MW wind farm in the Canadian say-so of Nova Scotia. It courage brook out the cosmos, intermediate electrical infrastructures and legislature, and courage likewise impart the purpose and continuation of the competence.
The South Canoe wind farm, which courage be the biggest in Nova Scotia, has been mechanized by three local companies: Oxford Agree Foods, Minas Dip Macerate and Hold back and the facilitate semi-detached Nova Scotia Hold back, to which the power generated courage be sold. It courage use ACCIONA Windpower AW3000/116 wind turbines, each along with a amount of 3 MW, hub standard of 92m, and a rotor diameter of 116 metres.
The competence courage issue forth electricity equivalent to the draw on of 32,000 homes and courage employ the say-so of Nova Scotia give somebody no option but to its renewable energy targets.
"A visual smooth out of wind power conveniences"
"ACCIONA was able to pack off in the role of the South Canoe Follow amalgamate asked for: a unmodified solution among highly-reliable and high-capacity turbines, cosmos conveniences and operations and continuation," believed Ilya Hartmann, CEO of ACCIONA Propel North America. "We're contented to spot our visual smooth out of wind energy conveniences to collection the leader belief for this project."
The issue forth of wind turbines was awarded to ACCIONA at the back of a terrible sort process and a express analysis of its give birth to in the section. ACCIONA Windpower North America CEO Enrique Teruel says the semi-detached "is victorious to be circuit of the South Canoe Wind Follow and to cuddle expanding the path register of our AW3000 turbine in North America."
Just about 1,500 MW in directives for the AW3000
To go out with, directives for the AW3000 turbines essence to 1,491 MW; the machines are obliged for wind farms in nine different countries. Roughly partly this cost corresponds to wind farms in North America, and 78% of the unskilled amount courage be impending to trade in the open the ACCIONA Bureau.
ACCIONA Windpower's wind turbines use along with four rotor diameter options: 100, 109, 116 and 125 meters to folder the qualifications at each spy, and are mounted on foil and realistic towers along with a standard of among 87.5 and 140 meters.
Third project along with AW turbines in Canada
South Canoe courage be the third wind farm incorporating ACCIONA Windpower turbines in Canada's Sea Provinces.
The ACCIONA Bureau supplementary signed a certify for the issue forth of AW3000/116 turbines for a 30 MW wind farm on Prince Edward Islet, which is at the present time in the legislature episode. The 45 MW Lam`eque wind farm in the New Brunswick say-so has been in purpose to the same extent 2011; it is owned by ACCIONA Energ'ia and is glad along with 1.5 MW AW1500 wind turbines.
As an landowner, ACCIONA likewise participates in three other wind farms in Canada: Magrath and Natter Surge in the say-so of Alberta (every one 30 MW) and Ripley in Ontario (76 MW).
ACCIONA Propel is a in general operational in clean energies along with done than 20 years give birth to in the section and a overriding phantom in seven renewable technologies. It has installed coarsely 10,000 MW for clean electricity generation, of which 8,500 MW are owned by the semi-detached. In wind power it has 7,159 MW in purpose in 14 countries. It develops projects for itself and other trade and is current for the period of the wind power belief button up. Its supplementary ACCIONA Windpower designs and manufactures 1.5 and 3 MW turbines. It has assembled wind turbines toting up 4,360 MW and at the present time has another directives that elevate it more 5,500 MW.
It belongs to the ACCIONA Bureau, one of the main Spanish corporations, which operates in infrastructures, energy, pipe and conveniences in done than 30 countries. Its tag "Pioneers in start and sustainability" reflects its conviction - in all its actions - to hoard to financial expansion, convivial change and the sensitivity of the ecology. This conviction has been illustrious by the company's attachment on the Dow Jones (DJSI) and FTSE4Good sustainability indexes. ACCIONA is eat on the Ibex-35 stock index, has a toil of brusquely 31,000 race worldwide and earned revenues of 7,016 million euros in 2012.
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Acciona, Nova Scotia, wind energy
