Wind turbines at sewage plant will power homes
FOUR giant wind turbines which will be visible from miles away and will create enough electricity for 4,500 homes are to be built in Avonmouth.
The scheme has been put together by Bristol-based green energy firm Triodos Renewables and the turbines will be built at Wessex Water's sewage works.
Work on the four 126-metre tall turbines is due start at the end of this year and is likely to be completed within 12 months.
Triodos Renewables is an off-shoot of the ethical bank Triodos which has its national headquarters in Bristol. The electricity generated by the four turbines will be sold to the national grid under the Power Purchase Agreement and the project is also being backed by Ofgem.
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Matthew Clayton, the managing director of Triodos Renewables, has been instrumental in setting up the deal.
He said: "We are delighted to have secured this deal with Wessex Water and to be building on their commitment to renewable energy.
"The shared sustainable ethos of Wessex Water has made our collaboration on this project a very positive experience. Developing another wind farm on a brownfield site fits well with our commitment for sensitively siting renewable energy projects.
"We are pleased to be able to make our work visible to our shareholders, particularly those who are investing in our current share issue."
Ten percent of our 5,000 shareholders live within 60 miles of the Avonmouth project which will be visible from the M5.
GENeco, a firm set up by Wessex Water to look at ways of increasing renewable energy, is part of the deal that will lead to the turbines being built.
GENeco has made improvements to treatment processes at Bristol sewage treatment works, to increase renewable power through anaerobic digestion and made the site self-sufficient in terms of creating energy.
Four years ago the firm developed plans to build wind turbines at the site. However, in recent years the company was able to further increase renewable energy generation to the extent that surplus power is now fed in to the national grid.
The opening of a food waste plant at the site this autumn will allow supermarkets, councils and food manufacturers to recycle waste providing additional renewable energy.
Mohammed Saddiq, the boss of the firm, said the company was pleased to see even more renewable energy would be generated at the Avonmouth.
He said: "Triodos is well positioned to take the project forward and the company has similar sustainability goals to us. A substantial amount of renewable energy can be generated from the wind turbines which are among the most economic renewable energy resource available in the UK."
The wind farm is the ninth in Triodos Renewables' portfolio, which also includes Ness Point and Eye in Suffolk and Dunfermline in Fife.
Comments
by gary_hopkins
Wednesday, October 03 2012, 10:18PM
“Yes Brilliant technology
Things have moved on.
The origonal company was Compact Power.
Then Ethos energy.
But the technology now is owned and run by New Earth Solutions.
The plant looks after most of the black bag waste from the west of England and starts feeding into the grid in the next few months.”
by Brizz_Tony
Wednesday, October 03 2012, 9:27PM
“Gary,
I was unaware of the Avonmouth plant, and looked it up here:
http://tinyurl.com/9q2pvua
It looks a brilliant idea, solving two problems at once, and if it works well, then I can see it being popular throughout the country and beyond.
Wind turbines, though, do nothing to reduce CO2 emissions. The German Green party began to look again at the issue in 2009, as reported by Spiegel Online:
http://tinyurl.com/8lbs39l
The lack of reliability was highlighted in a report for the John Muir Trust
http://tinyurl.com/66k6o3y
and a report in Denmark's wind farms found that they produce half of the claimed output:
http://tinyurl.com/mdfsju
The wind industry exists only because of the useful product it generates - subsidies.Energy policy in this country is decided by people with vested interests in wind energy. Denmark has the most wind power capacity in Europe, and it is no coincidence that it also has the highest electricity costs in Europe. Wind turbines divert resources from renewables that work. We may realise soon what a massive mistake we have made.”
by gary_hopkins
Wednesday, October 03 2012, 8:27PM
“Given the multiple issues of security of supply,cost of fossil fuels and climate change any country that does not invest in a variety of renewables is very unwise.
Pity then that the post completely ignored a new renewable energy plant in Avonmouth that will churn out 6x the output of these turbines 24 hours a day.It will be fed from the outstream of our waste treatment plant after recyclates have been extracted.
The combined plant will employ 100+local people and this could well rise as the possible exports around the world of the leading technology are huge.
The energy plant starts generation next month and the pyrolysis/gasification technology was origonally pioneered by a Bristol firm.
Questions happily answered.”
by Tiny_Steve
Wednesday, October 03 2012, 11:42AM
“You can't use gas if Russia or Iran decides to turn off the taps. You can't use coal if someone blockades our ports, remember the fuel strike.
No-one is saying wind should be our only energy source but when turbines are generating (which is a very high % of the time) it means you need to burn less gas and coal.”
by lolly60
Wednesday, October 03 2012, 9:26AM
“Stll not really worth it for that little amount and also all the pit falls of these things,cant use them when its to windy so they stop turning but they keep them on using electric ??????”