Assembling of wind turbines delayed

Work has been delayed on the assembling of twenty six turbines for a wind farm that will be located on the Kent-Sussex border on a marshland. The area is known as Romney Marsh.

The delay which lasted twenty four hours was caused by a technical hitch on a crane which is being used to lift the huge components of the wind turbines into place. The project is huge and for the last two weeks seventy eight lorries have been trasversing through Kent to ferry the propeller blades from the Chatham Dockyard. The firm responsible for the development is Npower Renewables.

A spokesperson for Npower Renewables, Simon Holt, disclosed that they have set a target of fully assembling 2 wind energy turbines ever seven days. They hope to finish the project by September. The spokesperson added that the most challenging part of it was transporting the wind turbines but once that was done assembling them all was pretty straightforward.

Consent for the wind farm which is worth sixty million sterling pounds was granted by the government three years ago in 2005 after a series of public inquiry hearings.

The plans for the wind farm had been met with protests from the locals as well as the local authorities of East Sussex and Kent.
All the turbines have been imported from Germany where they were manufactured. Each of the turbines will rise to a height of one hundred and fifteen metres. They are expected to start generating electricity from early next year. Their generation capacity is the equivalent of the average electricity consumption of thirty three thousand households.

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