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Originally Posted by Fuzz
Funny, you think of those things as once you build them, they are good to go, but it sounds like they need lots of maintenance.
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I guess moving parts don't move forever. .. And you need a crane to bring the generator into the shop ( maintenance hurdle).
Trouble with the being a pioneering project for wind farming in Alberta is that you get to find out the difference between predicted performance and actual performance.
About six years ago I attended an info session regarding a wind farm project proposed around drumheller/ Hanna. The presenter remarked how the first wind farms in Alberta (i.e. Near Cowley) were actually put in places with too much wind. Turns out the first winds farms were put in the wrong place because higher average winds were wearing out the equipment.
His project was searching for a site where lower speed winds would blow for longer periods of the daytime... and he describe how they learnt from the engineering decisions of the day.