Alec Church has returned form Sutherland in the Karoo in South Africa after helping Enviromon to safely install 3 Nexgen 60m Himasts. He brought the crew up to speed on safely handling 60m masts, they having previously only worked on 15 meter tilt up masts.
Enviromon South Africa
February 18th, 2010South Africa Met Mast Supervision
December 1st, 2009Alec Church has recently returned from a supervision trip to South Africa. He was asked to assist Mulilo Renewables with the installation of one 70m HiMast produced by Nexgen, in the fruit growing region of the western cape near a town called Worcester, 2 hours drive North of Cape Town. He taught a crew of local construction workers, with no experience of met mast installations, how to correctly assemble and safely lift the mast whilst overcoming a few teething problems. It was a steep leaning curve for the novice crew, but by the end of the installation they had gained enough knowledge and technique to safely install met masts.
Rhyl Flats Real Time RF Data Link
November 5th, 2009Bobby and Will completed installation of an RF link between Rhyl Flats Met Mast and Turbine 27 to provide real time wind data from the met mast Campbell data logger to Siemens network in the turbine via a MODBUS/TCP interface.
Rhyl Flats Off Shore Windfarm
September 18th, 2009The off shore climbing team from Solar Wheel Limited have successfully completed the replacement of wind measuring equipment and data loggers on Rhyl Flats Met mast which was recently extended from 80 to 90 meters in preparation for wind power-performance assessment, part of ongoing works by Npower Renewables to complete and comission the wind farm currently under construction. The anemometry equipment was supplied by welsh firm Vector Instruments based in Rhyl.
Solar Wheel In Siberia
September 18th, 2009Bobby has recently returned from the Altai area of the Kazakhstan Steppes near lake Yarovoje in Siberia having supervised a local rigging team in the successful installation of 3 Nexgen 60m Himasts.
Local Press Coverage
September 11th, 2009Local press coverage of projects we are involved with.
Infinergy’s first step towards Wear Point Wind Farm, Milford Haven
1:40pm Saturday 5th September 2009
Plans to develop a four-turbine wind farm near Milford Haven are a step closer with the installation of a temporary mast next week which will measure wind speeds at the proposed site.
The 50m anemometer (“met”) mast will be constructed at Wear Point on an industrial site adjacent to the Semlogistics tank storage facility, where renewable energy company Infinergy is due to apply shortly for planning permission to develop four wind turbines.
Lorraine Dallmeier, Infinergy’s senior project manager, said the mast would be used to gather wind speed and direction data and would be erected for 18 to 24 months.
“I’m very pleased to announce the instalment of the met mast at Wear Point — its construction is a key milestone for the project,” she said.
“Wind turbine schemes such as Wear Point are important in tackling climate change and helping to achieve local, regional and national targets for renewable energy production and the reduction of CO2.
“We believe that with the support of local people, we can provide a fantastic opportunity for the community of Milford Haven to contribute significantly towards renewable energy generation.”
Carmarthen-based Solar Wheel has been contracted to install the device and once erected, the wind data will be analysed by Garrad Hassan, a world leader in their field.
For further information visit www.wearpointwindfarm.co.uk
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Reproduced courtesy of Western Telegraph
Some photos of our recent work!
June 10th, 2009We thought you might enjoy some of these photos of our recent work here and abroad.
More work For Greta & Green
June 8th, 2009Bobby Bazalgette has recently returned from Russia after supervising two installations of Nexgen 70m Himast in the Orenburg region.
He was asked by Greta & Green to advise the local crew on handling a 70m mast and also to commission the Campbell scientific loggers. Ensuring that they were communicating successfully with the local GSM networks and emailing data to the clients.
Solar Wheel Limited in Bosnia
May 29th, 2009Alec Church has returned from Bosnia after supervising the successful installation of 2 Nexgen 70m Himasts to provide wind monitoring in the west of the country for Greta & Green Energy. The local rigging team had experience of installing 50m Nexgen masts but requested that Solar Wheel Ltd. send an experienced crew member to show them techniques for handling a 70m Mast, and to point out any pitfalls, ensuring that they installed it safely.
Press coverage Of Lattice Mast Work In Sweden
May 15th, 2009
Below is an article that was written, in the local newspaper, about our recent expedition to Sweden
www.thisiscarmarthenshire.co.uk
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A CARMARTHEN company fought off international competitors to supply wind energy equipment in Sweden.
It was a case of made in Wales as Solar Wheel took Welsh wind energy equipment to a country at the forefront of wind energy.
Brechfa-based Solar Wheel is run by Bobby Bazalgette and the project was part of a large new programme of investment in
renewable energy in Sweden.
The team — all from the Carmarthen and Gwen-draeth area — spent three weeks in Sweden and had to climb 70-metre masts.
“In spite of blizzards, very difficult ground conditions and strict health and safety requirements, the job was finished on time
and in budget,” said Bobby.
“We spent three weeks in Swedish forestry area — quite similar to Brechfa Forest — where there is a mixture of commercial forestry and tourism.
“Tourism is very important in that area and wind energy is not seen as a problem affecting that. Wind energy is very popular in Sweden.
Bobby said: “They have almost 10 times as many turbines as the UK.”
Solar Wheel won the contract despite competition from Danish , and German companies and the instruments used were made by
Windspeed, a company in Rhyl.
Bobby said more needed to be done to provide renewable energy in Britain.
“Wind energy is moving ahead as a means of reducing dependence on fossil fuels worldwide,” he said.
TEAM EFFORT: Carmarthen’s Solar Wheel team
(from left) Bobby Bazalgette, Will Britton, Felix Merry and Mike Cawker.