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Renewable Energy: Replacing wind turbines

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    • CommentAuthortony
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    I recently read about a scheme to replace wind farm turbines with new ones. Their idea was to remove the existing ones and put new ones up, much bigger ones. It might seem like a good idea because because all the cabling infrastructure will already be there but of course it won’t be suitable because the the output of the new wind turbines will probably be something like 10 times as much as as existing ones so the cables would need to be upgraded anyway.

    My intention is that it’s crazy to take down in turbines that still useful. Why not? Just put the new ones up somewhere else then we’d have both the old ones and the new ones all functioning?
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    I suspect that replacing an existing wind turbine with a bigger one is (much) less controversial than a new build.

    IMO before much more wind energy is produced the grid needs to be sorted to allow for the additional generated energy. It seems daft to me to install more (bigger) turbines when curtailment payments are already being made.

    But doubtless someone has done the sums (including the availability of curtailment payments)

    Unless the ones to be replaced are nearing their end of expected life (20-25 years)

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