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Our Community Bellacorick Windfarm
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Our Community Bellacorick Windfarm
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Developed
by Webtrade Ltd.
© 2000-2001 Webtrade Communications Ltd.
In contrast with some other European countries, notably Denmark, Ireland has been slow to develop wind power. Apart from relatively small island projects on Inisoir and Cape Clear, little progress was made until the building in 1992 of the 6.5 MW wind farm at Bellacorick in Co Mayo. This consists of twenty 300 kW wind turbines and one 450 kW unit. These machines bear little resemblance to the Dutch windmills used in the past for grinding grain. They have high efficiency aircraft-type propellers of diameter greater than 30 m, and sophisticated control systems. The Danish manufacturers, Nordtank Energy Group, expect to be in production of a 1.1 MW turbine, which is currently under test, by 1995. The performance of the Bellacorick wind farm has exceeded expectations, and a second similar unit will be built in the near future at Mount Eagle in Co Kerry. The map in Figure 1 shows the location of planned wind farms.
