Port extensions are very expensive, but wind turbines can help to fund it. Hvide Sande harbour has led the way with a unique model of how this challenge can be overcome.
Hvide Sande harbour
At Hvide Sande harbour was in December 2011, set up and started 3 x 3 MW Vestas V -112 wind turbines. Holmsland Tourism Association founded a foundation which owns 80 % of the turbines. This fund has been the initiator and project -maker.
Hvide Sande Nordhavn Moellelaug I/S pays an annual basic rent of 4.8 million DKK to the local port.
This unusually high rent is because it is intended to use the wind turbines to finance Hvide Sande harbour expansion and navigation conditions.
The remaining 20 % is owned by local people over 18 who live within a radius of 4.5 km from the nearest turbine, as the Danish Renewable Energy Act prescribes. The wind turbine guild has nearly 400 local stakeholders.
The fund will be used to initiate new business initiatives for the benefit of and at Hvide Sande harbour and tourism in the local area.
The return from Hvide Sande 3 wind turbines is expected now to be between 9 and 11 % per year.
The turbines are paid back at somewhere between 7 and 10 years. Each turbine has a total cost 30.3 million DKK.
Expected production is 15,000,000 KWh/year /turbine.
The plan for the installation of the turbines met objections from 2 citizens and the local branch of the Danish Society for Nature Conservation. None were either wholly or partially successful.
Boennerup harbour
Already in 1997 North Djurs municipality, Boennerup Fishermen, Boennerup harbour and several local promoters were behind the establishment of the wind farm on the harbour in Boennerup in Jutland.
Wind turbines at the harbour of Boennerup.
The park consists of seven wind turbines in sizes 600 kW – 1,300 kW located on the port's piers. In the first several years was one of the turbines driven by Boennerup Fishermen. In 2006, this like all the other turbines in the port, were assigned to the K/S Boennerup Wind Turbinel Park as part of a larger renewable energy production business under Ecopartner ApS.
Wind turbines help ensure pier and quay at the port. The wind farm has today also function as a symbol and landmark of the port. The turbines provide energy equivalent to the electricity consumption of more than 1,500 households representing about half of the households in the former North Djurs Municipality.
Hirtshals harbour
Hirtshals plans to get four large wind turbines with a capacity of 3.3 MW and a height of max. 150 meters to the blade tip.
The turbines will be erected on an area east of the existing port area, where the port is in the process of preparing an expansion of 250,000 square meters.
The expansion is still in the planning stages and it is yet (early 2014) unclear how the wind turbine project is to be designed, but it is clear that wind turbines must have a local ownership.
Hanstholm harbour
Hanstholm harbour plans to expand and part of the funding will come from nine large wind turbines to be set up at the port outer pier.
Hanstholm port has the same approach as Hvide Sande, because in their calculations this provides the greatest local revenue.
The expansion of Hanstholm harbour is still in the planning stages.
Visualization of Hanstholm harbour with wind turbines.
Other harbours in Denmark
In addition to the above ports are others who have discussed the possibility of allowing wind turbines finance expansion, operation or maintenance.
These are the ports of Frederikshavn, Koege and Copenhagen.
Read more about local ownership of wind turbines in the report Wind as a Lever for Local Development in Peripheral Regions.
source: folkecenter.net
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