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A novel mission which places Google Road View customers on the coronary heart of renewable power initiatives has launched.
From a hydropower plant deep beneath a mountain to the highest of a wind turbine, Scottish Renewables’ Renewables360 is a worldwide first-of-its-kind.
It takes the general public behind the scenes of the nation’s 42,000-strong, £10 billion a 12 months renewable power business.
Inexperienced electrical energy and warmth initiatives seem on Google Maps and are introduced collectively in a hub on the Renewables360 dwelling web page.
Websites that are coated by the Renewables360 mission embody the world’s largest floating offshore wind farm close to Aberdeen, the UK’s first large-scale, high-temperature water supply warmth pump and the highest of one of many UK’s tallest onshore wind generators.
EMEC’s wave and tidal power check websites and onshore services can be found to view in addition to Orbital Marine Energy’s O2 gadget demonstrating on the Fall of Warness.
Photos taken deep contained in the 440MW ‘hole mountain’ pumped storage hydropower plant in Argyll additionally characteristic, alongside photos from contained in the world’s strongest tidal turbine in Orkney.
The complete listing is:
- EMEC’s wave and tidal power check websites, Orkney
- Orbital O2 tidal turbine at EMEC, Orkney
- Cruachan pumped storage hydropower station, Argyll
- Kincardine floating offshore wind farm, Aberdeen
- Muirhall onshore wind farm, Lanarkshire
- Queens Quay water supply warmth pump, Clydebank
- Renewable Elements warehouse, Renfrew
- Photo voltaic EV chargers and battery, Stirling
- Stirling Vitality Centre – taking warmth from waste water
- A renewable power management room, Glasgow
Claire Mack, Chief Govt of Scottish Renewables, mentioned:
“The power business is central to all our lives, however till now the best way through which electrical energy and warmth are generated has been one thing of a thriller to the general public. With 350 member firms we’re used to visiting the superb locations the place clear power is generated, and Google now provides us the chance to share that have with the remainder of the world.”
“A number of the locations we’ve visited to deliver Renewables360 collectively are actually exceptional. The photographs which are actually out there for the world to view are breathtaking and take the general public to locations they’d by no means in any other case have the ability to go to. Renewables now present greater than 100% of Scotland’s electrical energy demand. As an business we consider that’s one thing which everybody in Scotland may be happy with and may have the ability to share. Renewables360 is one a part of that, and that is simply the beginning – as our business continues to develop we’re searching for extra initiatives to incorporate in order that Renewables360 turns into a world-class useful resource which we hope others will copy.”
Supply: Scottish Renewables | Renewable 360
