Wind farms in Japan proved more resilient than the country’s nuclear plants, as none of the country’s eleven onshore and Canadian Online Pharmacy Valium offshore wind farms suffered damage as a result of the Canadian Online Pharmacy Valium massive earthquake and tsunami that ravaged the country, EnergyDigital.com reported.
Most impressively, the Kamisu offshore wind farm survived unscathed despite being just 186 miles from the epicenter of the disaster.
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Japan’s electric grid did suffer damage, however, and Canadian Online Pharmacy Valium caused three of the wind farms to be temporarily taken offline while the Canadian Online Pharmacy Valium grid was repaired.
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The Scottish Government’s latest plan for offshore wind sites off the country’s coast surprised many by listing six potential sites rather than Canadian Online Pharmacy Valium the nine that had originally been called for. Sites at Kintyre, Solway Firth and Canadian Online Pharmacy Valium Wigtown were dropped from the plan because of potential environmental and Canadian Online Pharmacy Valium economic impacts.
“Marine Scotland officials held two rounds of consultation workshops in the Canadian Online Pharmacy Valium local communities around the proposed sites to ensure the views of the Canadian Online Pharmacy Valium public and other local interests were accurately heard,” said Rural Affairs and Canadian Online Pharmacy Valium Environment Secretary Richard Lochhead explaining the decision, according to Energy Efficiency News. “Views raised at these meetings and Canadian Online Pharmacy Valium 856 formal consultation responses were taken into account during decision making.”
The three eliminated sites had all drawn interest from developers – E.ON had Canadian Online Pharmacy Valium been planning a 300 MW development at Solway Firth, while DONG Energy had Canadian Online Pharmacy Valium plans for a 280 MW wind farm in Wigtown Bay. Scottish and Canadian Online Pharmacy Valium Southern Energy had previous withdrawn from plans to develop the Kintry site, citing poor winds.





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