Planning

Heidra offers services in the technical stages of planning. The assistance is aimed at sites ranging from 5 kW single wind turbine sites to multiple 500 kW schemes. At these small-scale wind turbine size it is rarely commercially viable for a large wind farm developer to invest the capital to acquire planning permission for the sites. Heidra has tailored its planning assistance to work at a more cost effective scale in partnership with the community/site owner. Once planning permission has been gained the site can be either developed locally or sold. Typical services include photomontage, noise assessment and zone of visual influence. Our community pages offer more information on the planning stages.

Communities

Heidra is working with Sustainable South Brent to develop a community model for the development of individual wind turbine sites at the scale of 100 kW to 500 kW installed capacity. Francis Mcnaugthon of SSB is developing these guide lines.

WindMeasurement.co.uk

Heidra was successful in a bid to RE4D to develop a wind monitoring toolkit designed specifically for small wind turbine sites (5 kW and upward). The product developed, windMeasurement.co.uk, now has a proven track record after numerous installations.

Wind turbines generally do what they say on the lid: They generate a particular power at a particular wind speed - normally called a power curve. Prospective buyers generally take a risk on turbine cost against reliability of both the power curve and the hardware.

The other big risk is the wind speed: Its no use having a 10 kW geneator if you only have 1 kW of power to drive it. windMeasurement.co.uk has been developed to minimise the risk in wind speed.

To support larger community turbine developments windMeasurement.co.uk also offers the more standard high mast and Sodar services at highly competetive prices.