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Solarwheel riggers have completed the first phase of refitting Gwynt Y Mor MET mast with all new anemometry.   The work contracted out by RWE, involved replacing the Vector A100LK anemometers,  W200P Wind Vanes, and a METEK USA-1 3D Ultrasonic anemometer.   The work also invloved servicing aircraft warning lights and fog horn and associated […]

Solar Wheel rigging technicians recently completed works fitting anemometry and mounting booms to two 80m permanent lattice towers at Bradwell and Kiln Pit Hill Wind Farms.  The work which enables  power curve assessment, was completed for REPower in conjunction with Francis & Lewis International who supply and install the lattice masts.

Solar Wheel have completed fitting instruments on two lattice towers. The first, a supply, build, install, and commission of a comprehensive array of anemometry and data logging equipment for Francis & Lewis International. The setup including a METEK USA-1 sonic anemometer producing serial data to a Campbell Scientific logger, was successfully installed on a 90 […]

Alec Church has returned form Sutherland in the Karoo in South Africa after helping  Enviromon to safely install 3 Nexgen 60m Himasts. He brought the crew up to speed on safely handling 60m masts, they having previously only worked on 15 meter tilt up masts.

Alec Church has recently returned from a supervision trip to South Africa.  He was asked to assist Mulilo Renewables with the installation of one 70m HiMast produced by Nexgen, in the fruit growing region of the western cape near a town called Worcester, 2 hours drive North of Cape Town.  He taught a crew of […]

The off shore climbing team from Solar Wheel Limited have successfully completed the replacement of wind measuring equipment and data loggers on  Rhyl Flats Met mast which was recently extended from 80 to 90 meters in preparation for wind power-performance assessment, part of ongoing works by Npower Renewables to complete and comission the wind farm […]

Bobby has recently returned from the Altai area of the Kazakhstan Steppes near lake Yarovoje in Siberia having supervised a local rigging team in the successful installation of 3 Nexgen 60m Himasts.

Plans to develop a four-turbine wind farm near Milford Haven are a step closer with the installation of a temporary mast next week which will measure wind speeds at the proposed site. The 50m anemometer (“met”) mast will be constructed at Wear Point on an industrial site adjacent to the Semlogistics tank storage facility, where […]

Bobby Bazalgette has recently returned from Russia after supervising two installations of Nexgen 70m Himast

Alec Church has returned from Bosnia after supervising the successful installation of 2 Nexgen 70m Himasts