| Wind Watch is a registered educational charity, founded in 2005. |
Storm shuts down offshore wind turbines off England
Credit: 28 October 2013 by Ben Miller | Windpower Offshore | www.windpoweroffshore.com ~~
Translate: FROM English | TO English
Translate: FROM English | TO English
A storm that swept across southern England today shut down offshore wind turbines in the region.
One-hundred-and-seventy-five wind turbines at the world’s biggest offshore wind plant, the 630MW London Array off Kent’s coast, were shut down from 6.30am until 8.30am.
The Siemens 3.6MW turbines are designed to shut down when wind speeds reach 25-metres per second. When the wind speed drops back down the machines re-set themselves and start back up.
A spokesperson for the site said by 10am London Array was fully operational again.
Dong operates a number of wind plants off England, including London Array and Gunfleet Sands 1& 2 (173MW) & 3 (12MW).
A spokesperson for the Danish utility said: “All of our sites took the necessary precautions against the severe weather last night. Some turbines at our sites in the south east automatically shut down due to high winds but have since be re-energised as the wind speeds subside.”
Siemens two 6MW demonstration turbines in Gunfleet Sands 3, off England’s Essex coast, automatically shut down when wind speeds reached 30-metres-a-second.
Wind speeds of more than 150 kilometres an hour have been recorded on the Isle of Wight.
This article is the work of the source indicated. Any opinions expressed in it are not necessarily those of National Wind Watch.
The copyright of this article resides with the author or publisher indicated. As part of its noncommercial educational effort to present the environmental, social, scientific, and economic issues of large-scale wind power development to a global audience seeking such information, National Wind Watch endeavors to observe “fair use” as provided for in section 107 of U.S. Copyright Law and similar “fair dealing” provisions of the copyright laws of other nations. Send requests to excerpt, general inquiries, and comments via e-mail.
| Wind Watch relies entirely on User Contributions |
 (via Stripe) |
 (via Paypal) |
Share:
[ Short URL: https://wind-watch.org/news/?p=58213 ]
