WICO 5th Newsletter July 2011
Welcome to the final edition of the WICO Newsletter July 2011...
Welcome to the 5th and final Edition of the WICO Newsletter brought to you in July 2011.
The project has progressed extremely well and the WICO guidelines were launched at the EU Sustainability Week in April 2011.
Please forward this newsletter to any colleagues who might be interested to receive it and encourage them to download the WICO E-brochure and E-Guidelines from the downloads section of the website:
http://www.marinesoutheast.co.uk/wico/downloads/
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WICO Guidelines available to download...
The WICO Guidelines have recently been produced to provide decision makers with key information and solutions to a number of issues:
* Information on how to influence and modify local planning rules to simplify the procedures for the installation of small wind systems
* Information on how to overcome the barriers to installations
* Technical information
* Information on the economic viability of small wind systems and financial incentive systems
To download the WICO Guidelines as an e-book or pdf please go to http://www.marinesoutheast.co.uk/wico/downloads/
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WICO project takes part in EU Sustainable Energy Week...
WICO partners Province of Ravenna, Marine South East and Diputacion Huelva joined together to take part in the EU Sustainable Energy Week, in April 2011 to launch a set of Guidelines to promote the deployment of small wind systems along European Coastlines.
A video of the presentations that took place at the EU Sustainable Energy Week is available to view on You Tube at the following link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpL3t76bSAY&NR=1
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Spain installs pilot small wind systems...
The Diputacion of Huelva has signed a collaboration agreement with the Municipality of Santa Barbara de Casas and the Andalucian Environment and Water Agency to install a small wind turbine to an old windmill which is located close to the town and is currently being restored for tourism.
The objective in installing this small horizontal wind turbine (1.5 kW) is to provide enough energy to cover the demand for indoor and outdoor lighting. The former mill buily in the 16th Century is about 5m high and is owned by the town.
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WICO presentation on You Tube...
Spanish WICO partner Diputacion de Huelva has produced an excellent video presentation of the WICO project, explaining its aims and objectives as well its findings which has been loaded onto You Tube and can be viewed at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TbxJorz_xg
The You Tube clip features Manuel Acevedo from Diputacion de Huelva talking about the project as well as some excellent footage of various small wind systems in operation.
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Diputacion de Huelva busy promoting WICO project...
The Spanish partner in the WICO project, Diputacion de Huelva has been busy promoting the Small Wind systems project at every available opportunity in recent months.
They took part in a Poster Display at CONAMA10 National Enviromental Congress which took place in Madrid in November 2010 and were on hand to answer questions from the highly relevant audience that attended the event.
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Marine South East presents WICO project and guidelines to local planners...
Simon Powell, WICO project manager for Marine South East, gave an overview of the WICO project and distributed the new guidelines to an audience of 36 delegates including local planners and renewable energy experts at a recent event in the UK.
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Final report, thoughts and experiences from the WICO project...
The purpose of WICO project was to pave the way for the deployment of small wind systems along the coast, in order to take advantage of marine breezes to develop renewable energy.
The main challenges were to identify the existing barriers and find possible solutions to overcome them.
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Presentation of WICO achievements at the Power Programme Closing Conference 21st September 2011, Brussels...
WICO partners will be attending the closing conference of the POWER Programme, taking place in Brussels in September 2011 to share their project experiences and outputs to the delegates.
The conference will provide new insights and best practices in the fields of energy efficiency, renewable energy, eco innovation, sustainable transport and behaviour change.
To find out more and attend the conference please follow the link
http://www.powerprogramme.eu/events_list.php
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Final presentation of the WICO project and guidelines to local stakeholders, 28th September 2011, Ravenna, Italy...
Under the auspices of the event Ravenna2011, the Province of Ravenna will hold its final local dissemination workshop on 28th September 2011, to present to local stakeholders and planners the achievements of the project, and the Guide Lines.
The presentation will take place during the environment festival Ravenna2011, a three days event of information and training meetings dedicated to technical-economic issues in the fields of waste, water and energy management.
The event attracts thousands of experts, actively contributing to the cultural growth of workers specialized in the management of waste, water and energy.
To find out more about the festival, the programme and to attend the workshops, please visit the web site http://www.ravenna2011.it/index-static.html
