Energy minister Edward Davey awarded the grant to utility SSE, for its National Offshore Wind Turbine Test Facility project, which it is developing with Scottish Enterprise.
http://www.windpoweroffshore.com/article/1220439/hunterston-test-site-receives-1million-grant
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No Tiree Array · November 12, 2013 at 1:32 pm
NTA has e mailed to Ed Davey MP and Jim Smith MD of SSE Renewables as follows:
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re Hunterston test site receives £1million grant
Jim Smith, SSE’s MD Renewables is stated as saying
(http://www.windpoweroffshore.com/article/1220439/hunterston-test-site-receives-1million-grant)
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“This funding will enable the project to find new ways to improve efficiency and reliability of offshore turbines and ultimately drive down costs.”
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Please offer details of what ‘ new ways to improve efficiency’ this grant has been awarded to research, and the relevance of doing same at a shore based facility which cannot replicate Round 3 offshore wind ,and sea-state conditions
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rgds
NTA looks forward to your response.