Wind Energy

The government, through the Renewables Obligation Order, has provided considerable financial incentives to utilise wind energy to generate electricity.

The UK has the highest average wind speeds in Western Europe and is ideally placed to exploit wind energy.

IPS specialises in the development of:

Onshore wind farms with up to 20 turbines. These wind farms are focused on supplying electricity to the grid. They are often located in remote areas and are characterised by larger energy outputs because of the small sources of disturbance on the wind resource.
On-site industrial wind energy projects, where one or more large wind turbines are connected directly to a site substation and the electricity generated is used directly by the industrial/commercial company in its manufacturing/servicing activities.

This type of wind energy project can be seen to be genuinely sustainable and a direct reduction in carbon emissions can clearly be attributed to the site.

Industrial wind turbine projects can be more profitable than wind farms, because imported electricity is displaced, which has a higher value than exported electricity. Subject to local conditions, planning applications tend to be more successful on industrial sites than they do on "greenfield" ones, because the environmental impact tends to be fewer.

IPS will undertake an initial site survey free of charge without any obligation to assess if wind energy is suitable at a particular site.

If a wind project is viable, IPS can lease and install the wind monitoring equipment and will assist the client at the various stages of the project from conceptual design through to the final commissioning of the plant.