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Ripple Energy wind farm?
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Photo's showing progress of the wind turbine installation at the end of today. Other photo's of the tower arriving earlier in the day were shown also. Fingers crossed that progress continues apace tomorrow as well!
Graig Fatha turbine week - The base of the tower is in
22/11/2021
As the light begins to fade across the beautiful South Wales countryside, the base of the tower has now been successfully bolted into place. That concludes our updates from all the activity down at the Graig Fatha site today. We'll be back tomorrow morning with our schedule for day 2 where we expect the main body of the tower to be lifted into place.
East coast, lat 51.97. 8.26kWp SSE, 23° pitch + 0.59kWp WSW vertical. Carport 3° pitch 6.16kWp. Nissan Leaf plus Zappi charger and 2 x A2A HP's. Givenergy 8.2 & 9.5 kWh batts, 2 x 3 kW ac inverters. Indra V2H. Graig Fatha 1.56 kW's, Kirk Hill 0.88 kW's, CoCharger Host & Interest in Abundance.5 -
Signed up for the second phase...3.995kWP SSW facing. Commissioned 7 July 2011. 24 degree pitch (£3.36 /W).
17 Yingli 235 panels
Sunnyboy 4000TL inverter
Sunny Webox
Solar Immersion installed May 2013, after two Solar Immersion lasting just over the guarantee period replaced with Solic 200... no problems since.
13 Feb 2020 LUX AC 3600 and 3 X Pylon Tech 3.5 kW batteries added...
May 2021 2x LG AC units installed
20 January 2024 Daikin ASHP installed4 -
In the glorious weather they're certainly not hanging about.
Graig Fatha turbine week - tower piece 2 is in place
23/11/2021
The build programme is now running full steam ahead on day 2. The second tower piece has just been lifted into place. Here are the latest shots from site.
East coast, lat 51.97. 8.26kWp SSE, 23° pitch + 0.59kWp WSW vertical. Carport 3° pitch 6.16kWp. Nissan Leaf plus Zappi charger and 2 x A2A HP's. Givenergy 8.2 & 9.5 kWh batts, 2 x 3 kW ac inverters. Indra V2H. Graig Fatha 1.56 kW's, Kirk Hill 0.88 kW's, CoCharger Host & Interest in Abundance.3 -
Video link of progress from the site this morning. Fingers crossed it continues like that for the rest of the day!
East coast, lat 51.97. 8.26kWp SSE, 23° pitch + 0.59kWp WSW vertical. Carport 3° pitch 6.16kWp. Nissan Leaf plus Zappi charger and 2 x A2A HP's. Givenergy 8.2 & 9.5 kWh batts, 2 x 3 kW ac inverters. Indra V2H. Graig Fatha 1.56 kW's, Kirk Hill 0.88 kW's, CoCharger Host & Interest in Abundance.4 -
Went for a walk on the footpaths nearby yesterday to see how it was progressing.And a view looking West at the existing Wind Farm.
South Wales. SolarEdge 4kWp West + 6kWp East plus 2xGivEnergy 8.2kWh Batteries. 2xA2A ASHP's + MVHR. Kia e-Soul 1st Edition & Renault Zoe Iconic BEV's. CoCharger Host. Intelligent Octopus, Ripple & Abundance.3 -
It's called a wind farm on the ripple site, but in reality is each of the projects just a single turbine?0
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I signed up a couple of days ago... next phase expected to be online autumn 2023.. so quite a while away.. share offering starting in Jan.Petriix said:
I believe the second site could be up to four turbines depending on uptake. DM me if you want a ref link with £25 credit when you sign up.Meatballs said:It's called a wind farm on the ripple site, but in reality is each of the projects just a single turbine?3.995kWP SSW facing. Commissioned 7 July 2011. 24 degree pitch (£3.36 /W).
17 Yingli 235 panels
Sunnyboy 4000TL inverter
Sunny Webox
Solar Immersion installed May 2013, after two Solar Immersion lasting just over the guarantee period replaced with Solic 200... no problems since.
13 Feb 2020 LUX AC 3600 and 3 X Pylon Tech 3.5 kW batteries added...
May 2021 2x LG AC units installed
20 January 2024 Daikin ASHP installed1 -
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With the crazy electric prices now , is this a better investment than previously?0
https://youtu.be/OsnbWJpetjE
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