With the Planet Cup action underway, fans hoping to catch England’s goals will hope that wind power proves additional reliable than ITV’s HDTV, which suffered an embarassing glitch minutes into England’s opening game on Saturday evening.
In a initial for the World Cup, one with the venues hosting the tournament is becoming powered by wind vitality. Promoting the message of ’green power’, around 25 Vestas-built wind turbines will likely be offering close to 1.8 megawatt (MW) of clean strength each for the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium.
But the reliability of wind power is also on the agenda further afield this week as countries including China, Canada and also the Czech Republic get involved in thousands of events to celebrate Worldwide Wind Day and raise awareness from the technologies.
Organised by the European Wind Power Association (EWEA) plus the Global Wind Power Council (GWEC), the event, becoming held tomorrow, will see simultaneous campaigns launched to boost investment in all things wind powered.
‘Wind Day has grown in popularity since its launch in 2007 due to the fact wind energy itself is breaking all records,’ said Christian Kjaer, chief executive of EWEA. ‘In Europe additional wind energy was installed from the last two years than any other energy-generating technologies. There’s spectacular growth in China, the US and elsewhere. It’s a global success story.’
In Poland, inflatable wind turbines eight metres high will be placed in front of government offices close to the country, whilst EWEA has put up a 29m turbine blade inside the middle on the Schuman roundabout next to the European Commission and European Council in Brussels.
While much of the concentrate with the events are going to be onshore wind, recent reports have suggested that focus on the Britain’s offshore sector could make UK the “Saudi Arabia on the renewables world”.
Over the past few months, several major engineering groups, such as GE and Siemens have announced plans to build turbine manufacturing facilities inside UK. Our latest in-depth report takes a look at how the Britain is set to lead in this area.
