Skykon contract for Europe’s biggest onshore wind farm
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‘Scotland has become the most positive and the most interesting renewables wind power market in Europe’, says Jesper Ohlenschlaeger, CEO of Skykon. The company manufactures on and offshore wind turbine towers at Machrihanish near Campbeltown.
This remark came with the announcement of more good news for Argyll. Skykon Towers has won the contract to build 152 80-metre high towers for turbine suppliers Siemens for Scottish & Southern Energy’s new Clyde Wind Farm near Abington.
Ohlenschlaeger went on to say: ‘This growing demand has allowed us to begin to meet our commercial objectives of building a leading tower supplier, delivering to the large wind turbine generators’.
This is the voice of ambition to inspire Argyll – and Kintyre – to lift its gaze to what it can really do. There’s nothing like success to build confidence and the hunger to drive for more.
Work on the contract is expected to start on 1st February 2010, with the first delivery at the end of March and construction running until the middle of 2011. In today’s world, that’s serious job security. It should see the workforce through the recession.
The Clyde Wind farm will be massive. It’s a £500 million project and it’s anticipated that it will contribute 350MW, powering over 200,000 homes. When it’s finished it will overtake the current top ranking European onshore wind farm, the giant Whitelee farm south of Glasgow.
This news is a real boost for morale in Campbeltown. With movement on the long awaited relaunch of the ferry between Campbeltown and Ballycastle in Northern Ireland, added to a string of serious developments in both the private and public sectors, things on the Mull are looking up. (Ministers in both the Scottish and Northern Ireland Governments and their respective Local Authority partners have agreed to move to the next stage of developing tender documents for the ferry route.)
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