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Current Fuhrländer-Project in Bulgaria
Wind energy as an alternative to coal
Fascinating prospect: The 2.5 MW generators will convert the mountain winds at 1500 m into clean wind-generated energy.
From April 2010, the construction of a 50 Megawatt wind farm with 20 x FL 2500 starts in central Bulgaria, near to the town of Kazanlak. All the wind generators must be erected by October - before the autumn storms.
The location is at an altitude of approx. 1,500 m, so an 85 m tower is sufficient to obtain very good outputs using 90 m rotors. The foundations have already been installed, tested, and documented. Because there is little space on the peaks of the Balkan mountains, Fuhrländer has set up an interim depot a few hundred metres below. This is where the 100 tower segments, 60 rotor blades, 20 machine housings, and hubs are stored. Although access routes are available because of the "Buzludja" communist monument, they must be adapted for the transport of the large construction components, as the switchback roads are too narrow. The 1,000 metres of altitude which have to be overcome represent a further challenge.
Construction of the foundations for the 20 multi-megawatt generators, at an altitude of 1400 m.
From the end of 2010, it is expected that the generators fill be feeding clean wind-generated energy into the Bulgarian power grid. Bulgaria is thus making a step change: because the earlier demand mainly from heavy industry, the energy sector, and mining, as well as the use of out-of-date technologies contributed to significant air, ground, and water pollution. Although Bulgaria has made significant environmental advances since the mid-1990s, the World Bank estimates that investments of around 9 billion euro will be required to implement the requirements of European law by 2020. Environmental protection was enshrined into the Bulgarian constitution as a state objective as early as 1991. In the Environmental Protection law of September 2002, the Bulgarian government legally established for the first time the principle of sustainability. The target for 2020 is to create 16% of the total domestic electric energy consumption from renewable sources. |
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