Part ownership of a Ripple Wind Turbine, fancy it?

[smegal]

Ripple say there are 20,000 registered for project 3.

The average investment per person for GF was £2.3k and I think it was similar for KH.

So thats 20000 x £2.3k = £46m

Which is similar to the cost of a 49.9MW solar farm which seems to be a popular size, I think because of planning and grid connections.

So the delay could simply be they had to wait until they had 20,000 folk putting a reservation fee down to make it more likely of a successful fund raiser. It could also be they need sunny weather to launch it, as could be a harder sell over the winter months.

They put the savings payback from 2025 in their calculator which suggests the solar farm wont be built till next year. I note one 49.9MW Solar farm got the go ahead in Jan this year but construction is not starting till 2024. I am not suggesting for one moment that its this one as there have been a few that have been approved recently. But it gives you the idea of the timescales.
https://www.solarpowerportal.co.uk/news ... wall_counc

50MW is the threshold between national and local planning. It looks like the government was set to change the Nationally Significant Infrastructure Project rules, but backtracked.

[Mr Gus]

What will folks thoughts be if this is both late & a countryside wrecker? (IE acres of panels with no grazing & the like)?

This element of the uncertainty of fields of solar versus field with solar that is still productive from ripples usual lack of pre-project information to clue people in versus a blind buy, I'm not a fan of agriculture OR solar, it's way out of date with bi-facial & modern mixed use solar projects elsewhere.

[Adokforme]

Hold on to your hats, looks like it's going to be a turbulent week ahead for Graig Fatha!

[nowty]

Hold on to your hats, looks like it's going to be a turbulent week ahead for Graig Fatha!

Yellow wind warning for Tuesday / Wednesday.

[AE-NMidlands]

Hold on to your hats, looks like it's going to be a turbulent week ahead for Graig Fatha!

Yellow wind warning for Tuesday / Wednesday.

nothing particularly special on my GF forecast...

[Adokforme]

Found this link posted on the Ripple community page and discovered it really informative about current wind generation around the UK. Unfortunately GF is not listed, but that might be a lot to ask to have data for a single turbine. While a nearby complex was listed and producing @76% when I applied the current output from our Dashboard to our shares maximum it translated to 75% capacity, so close enough for me.

https://renewables-map.robinhawkes.com/ ... 598/-2.862

[nowty]

Found this link posted on the Ripple community page and discovered it really informative about current wind generation around the UK. Unfortunately GF is not listed, but that might be a lot to ask to have data for a single turbine. While a nearby complex was listed and producing @76% when I applied the current output from our Dashboard to our shares maximum it translated to 75% capacity, so close enough for me.

https://renewables-map.robinhawkes.com/ ... 598/-2.862

Thats a great find.

The windfarm nearby GF is called "Pen y Cymoedd" on that link.

Pen y Cymoedd is currently at 94% and GF is at 96%.

[Joeboy]

Found this link posted on the Ripple community page and discovered it really informative about current wind generation around the UK. Unfortunately GF is not listed, but that might be a lot to ask to have data for a single turbine. While a nearby complex was listed and producing @76% when I applied the current output from our Dashboard to our shares maximum it translated to 75% capacity, so close enough for me.

https://renewables-map.robinhawkes.com/ ... 598/-2.862

Looked at this earlier today, excellent wind flow graphics.

I scrolled out and an interesting whirlpool type wind event off the SE edge of Greenland. Clever stuff this.

[Joeboy]

The bonny Easter Monday weather (completely unexpected), masked the outstanding performance from WT1 today ongoing. We lost 5kWh from Victron shutting down as I didn't leave enough headroom last night. Ah well!

[Joeboy]

113% CF 19.00hrs.