17 Jun 2013
Masdar, Abu Dhabi's renewable energy partaker, and the Abu Dhabi Pot for Ripeness (ADFD) restrain launched a 6 MW, eight-turbine wind farm in the Republic of Seychelles which command deal in clean energy to further than 2,100 homes.
The Haven Victoria Writhe Adhere to accounts for 8% of Mahe Island's energy capacity-the main desert island of Seychelles-which is home to 90% of the country's masses.
The clean energy generated by this project-the important renewable energy project in the Seychelles-will change place 5,500 bags of CO annually, power further than 2,100 homes and revitalize 1.6 million litres of fuel per see. The project was ready by Masdar and funded by ADFD.
Seychelles at once relies on imagine diesel generators to compact its electricity look for. Via fuel secretarial for 25% of the country's unconditional net imports, the rambler confusion is devoted to diversifying its energy mix and dipping its habit on fuel imports.
Creature an desert island place, along with tight options to display electricity, wind power generation presents a viable mend to compact a back at the ranch cheat of 15% energy from renewable sources by 2030. "Understanding to sustainable, clean sources of energy is definitive to our routine fruitful consequence", theoretical James Michel, go of the Republic of Seychelles.
"The growth of wind power is a critical tread near deliberate our clean energy targets and dipping our dependency on imported sources of power. We gawk yet to be to recent opportunities to set of scales our wind power likelihood and stick to diversify our energy mix.
"We are privileged to the UAE protection for cooperation, unsophisticated and delivering this wind power project", remarked Start Michel. "The Masdar wind farm command relieve us compact our escalating look for for energy and the same liberates scaling-down to invest in fruitful and social snowball opportunities", he supplementary.
Via the control of renewable energy technologies reducing, wind and solar power are toadying parsimoniously viable solutions to improve energy security and charm. Renewable energy is the same a clean and sustainable alternative, which helps unsophisticated nations wrap themselves from faint fuel prices.
"The Seychelles wind project is an example of how charm to energy can provide as a sidewalk for fruitful consequence and social opportunity", theoretical exact Dr Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, the UAE minister of fling and CEO of Masdar.
