EWT 500

[HAM135]

Congratulations. I have just logged into this thread and thumbed through it all with great interest. Well done, it looks very impressive. We have one exactly the same less than a mile from here and it looks fantastic. I am sure you will be pleased with it and I hope the wind blows you loads a money !!! I will keep my eye out for further posts. Brilliant.

Thanks for that,hoping it does well,won't start turning for another 3 wks but glad we have got this far.

 

[DaveGrohl]

3 weeks til turning? Crikey! Good going. It took Enercon and local network 4 months to get ours commissioned!! But I'm over it now

 

[Sandy]

It going yet

 

[HAM135]

Yes,not a great start though,ran for about 4 hrs yesterday after the g59 then shut down with a fault,not very windy but put up 600kwh's,not signed over to us yet so won't be going again until monday then EWT do 3 days of testing and adjustments,worse thing is we now have the turbine data on the computer showing real time windspeed(averaging around 7.5m/s at the moment) and its not turning,apparently quite common to have teething problems in the first few weeks though.

 

[Sandy]

It will get going, aye they all have teething problems first couple of weeks were averaging 11 at the moment

 

[Athlete's Foot]

Great news. The one just up the road from me had teething problems for about 3or 4 weeks and on the very odd ocassion has not turned when it should, but I would say that they have had a very good year to date with it. I hope it all goes well, I'm sure it will.

 

[Scoobyscotlad]

Great to see it up,Hamish, we both had some disappointments along the way but its good to get to this stage.
We are approaching our 10month production anniversary, on-course for 20 month project payback.

 

[Sandy]

How is it performing now?

 

[HAM135]

Had a few small problems but seems to be settling down now,done just over 100,000kw's since 1st May,will be happy enough if it keeps that up.Had a couple 10,000kw days but also some at 1000kw,early days though,will be interesting over the year.

 

[Sandy]

That's really good makes me wish I had pushed harder for that size

 

[berisford]

Could you tell me what size crane is needed for a 500kw turbine,got a developer interested in putting a 500kw up,access for a very large crane would be difficult,they want a 70m high tower what would the road weight of the crane be.
Thanks

 

[HAM135]

Could you tell me what size crane is needed for a 500kw turbine,got a developer interested in putting a 500kw up,access for a very large crane would be difficult,they want a 70m high tower what would the road weight of the crane be.
Thanks

500t crane for that size i would think,not sure what the actual weight of the crane would be though,probably 75-100t unballasted.

 

[Sandy]

How's it performing ,hitting you're projected wind speeds?

 

[HAM135]

Going better than expected for the time of year,generating between 35-40% of capacity since it went up,june -aug were always going to be quieter months,quite happy if it continues as it is.

 

[Sandy]

That's good I didn't realise they were derated from 900kw

 

[HAM135]

Yes 900 derated,ours is actually derated to 450kw due to grid constraints.The way things are at the moment i am just glad its up and turning.

 

[Sandy]

It will do well then