Wind Turbine Project to recommence next month

The Wind Turbine Project will recommence in July in Parham and at the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium by Vergnet, a French company specializing in renewable energy solutions, with a particular focus on wind, solar, and hybrid systems tailored for challenging environments. 

The company will install 15 wind turbines with each producing 275 KW per hour.

A wind turbine is a tool used to generate renewable energy that utilizes the wind. The turbines will have two blades on one end, spinning by the wind around a rotor to generate electricity.

Vergnet is renowned for its medium-scale wind turbines, notably the GEV MP model, designed to withstand cyclonic conditions by being tiltable, a feature especially valuable in hurricane-prone countries like Antigua and Barbuda.

“This company will be back on Antigua and Barbuda in July and it’s anticipated within three to six months, all of the turbines should be up and running and available for testing,” Cabinet Spokesperson Maurice Merchant revealed.

Two years ago, the Environment Department began work on the SPARE project where some of the turbines were installed in Parham.

The project was however delayed for some time.

This ambitious project is the result of collaboration between the Department of the Environment and the West Indies Oil Company, with financing of US$15 million from the Abu Dhabi Development Fund.