Visitors Rest beside a Towering Windmill (Windmill Construction)
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(DSC04251) Erecting the windmills in Bangui began in 1999, when NorthWind was formed by Danish and Filipino engineers and investors. NorthWind set up meteorological towers in Bangui and collected data about wind behavior in the area. The group, led by Danish businessman Niels Jacobsen, then worked to secure loans and permits for the project. The wind farm was built under the build-operate-and-own scheme, via a $40-million loan from the Danish Development Agency (DANIDA). Bangui’s windmills are an indicator of how small the world has become. The towers were assembled in Vietnam, the rotors in the United Kingdom, the nacelles — the part that holds the blades — in Denmark. Local workers constructed the bases. NorthWind built two wharves to accommodate the landing of the gigantic windmill parts. But the waves of Bangui’s coastline were so rough it took NorthWind five months — from October 2004 to February 2005 — before it was finally able to offload all the equipment at the site. The project sailed smoothly from then on, as it took the company just two months to install the windmills and lay the cables connecting them to the Ilocos Norte Electric Cooperative (INEC) grid. On May 8, 2005, NorthWind began delivering power to INEC. Thus began the operation of the Bangui wind farm. (Taken from http://pcij.org/stories/harnessing-the-w ind/)
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3 comments
Lovely silhouette.
said CatskillHiker
Wonderful shot. I love reading how the parts were built in various parts of the world and I always marvel at the ingenuity in large projects coming together.
said success2020
Nice shot with silhouette of windmill.
said abrahamjacobn
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