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The Hagshaw Hill windfarm is getting a new lease of life as the owner, ScottishPower, gets ready to repower it with new turbines, according to The Guardian. The upgrade will see the farm produce five times the original capacity with about half as many turbines.
ScottishPower will replace 26 aging wind turbines with 14 modern ones on the South Lanarkshire site. The replacement turbines are over 650 ft in height, compared to 180 ft for the older ones.
The facility will also be equipped with 20 MW of battery storage to take more advantage of the renewable energy. The total capacity of the turbines was 16 MW when they were commissioned in 1995, but will now output 79 MW once the upgrades are complete.
Chief Executive of ScottishPower Renewables, Charlie Jordan, said about the project, “Wind power technology has improved so much in the last 30 years. Three modern wind turbines could produce as much power as the whole [Hagshaw] site. Although Hagshaw is our oldest site, there were a number of windfarms built in the late 1990s which are coming to the end of their operational lives. We have a dozen more to repower over the next three or four years.”
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