Sunrise over Bangui Bay and 20 Coastal Windmills (History)
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(DSC04219) In the 1990s former Governor Ferdinand Marcos, Jr. aggressively pursued the development of a power plant in Ilocos Norte due to the poor quality of power provided by the National Power Corporation (NAPOCOR). Ilocos Norte is located at the end of the power grid that comes from Bauang, La Union which is a province away from Ilocos Norte, making the province most vulnerable to power outages. Poor quality of power discouraged investments in the province. Coca-Cola Bottler’s Company, a company highly dependent on the power in the province, would switch from to INEC’s line from 5pm to 10pm because of the low voltage. Complaints from Marcos never improved NAPOCOR’s power distribution to the province. In 1996, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) conducted a wind resource analysis and mapping study. It concluded that various areas in the Philippines are amenable to wind power installation including Bangui and Burgos towns in Ilocos Norte, Batanes and Babuyan Islands, which are north of Luzon and the higher interior terrain of Mindoro, Samar, Leyte, Panay, Negros, Cebu, Palawan and Eastern Mindanao. The study led to the inception of the wind farm project. NorthWind Power Development Corp, a Danish power firm, supplied the wind turbine-generator units (WTGs) for the site, similar to those already found in Denmark. The project is to be developed in three phases. Phase I of the project, inaugurated on June 18, 2005, erected 15 wind turbines spaced 236 meters apart on-shore. Phase II, was completed on August 2008, and added 5 more wind turbines with the same capacity, and brought the total capacity to 33MW. All 20 turbines describes a graceful arc reflecting the shoreline of Bangui Bay. (Taken from http://en.wikipilipinas.org/index.php?ti tle=Bangui_Windmills)
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3 comments
I'm amazed at your capture making this another of your beautiful images. I'm amazed at having the bright sun, yet still showing the beautiful golden light and deep blue sky. It's a gorgeous image.
said success2020
Brilliant image and breathtaking atmosphere Mary Ann!
said pfjc
Nice catch of this magic hour.
said fdguin
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