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WICO (Wind of the Coast) Project Overview...

Marine South East is working with partners from Italy and Spain to share knowledge and experience of the deployment of small wind energy systems along coastlines.

Coastal areas offer a wide range of opportunities to produce wind, current and tidal renewable energy, WICO partners have identifies small wind systems as suitable for integration along the coast to exploit the presence of on-shore and off-shore winds.

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Wind of Coast (WICO) update...

Marine South East continues to work with the Italian and Spanish partners towards a set of guidelines to assist public authorities, businesses and members of the public understand the policy, planning, economics and technology involved with small wind turbines.

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Feedback from Small Onshore Wind installation workshop...

On 17th June the WICO project hosted a workshop during the Seawork 2010 exhibition in Southampton. The event focused upon the opportunities small wind systems represent to marine businesses.

Many marine companies will have access to coastal locations with significantly better wind resources than further inland. For these locations wind turbines of various designs and sizes will be strong contenders within a low-carbon energy strategy. The power generated by a wind turbine increases as a cube function of the wind speed. This makes sites with higher mean wind velocities very much more attractive.

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