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Vattenfall to scrap Yttre Stengrund
Vattenfall has abandoned plans to repower its 10MW Yttre Stengrund offshore wind farm in the Kalmar Sound, Sweden.
The company announced this week it is planning to decommission the project, which was brought online in 2001 and features NEG Micon 2MW turbines.
Vattenfall said it would not be "worthwhile" to replace the machines, which would also require a new export cable to be installed.
“Vattenfall invests in wind power wherever it is profitable. We have chosen to decommission this wind farm prematurely and restore the sea bed and ground installations in an ecologically correct way,” said head of Nordic operations Torbjörn Wahlborg.
A bit more:
Most of the wind turbines, foundations and cables will then be sold or recycled as scrap.
Permission was granted in 2009 ago to repower the wind farm but as of last year the company was describing the erection of updated turbines as only one of "several solutions".
Only one of the five turbines is currently in operation. Difficulty finding spare parts was a long-running problem at the wind farm.
Without government subsidies, all these projects would just dry up and blow away.
alt.energy is not profitable. Nuclear is.
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