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Wind-power park in Fantanele-Cogealac-Gradina area becomes operational
CEZ Group began the exploitation at full capacity of the wind-power park in the Fantanele-Cogealac-Gradina (Constanta County, south-eastern Romania), for the completion of which it invested over one billion euros, Group spokesperson Roxana Margineanu told Agerpres on Wednesday.
According to the cited source, the 240 wind turbines that fit one of the largest wind-power parks of Europe supply the national grid with 600 MW, an electricity production approximately equal to that of a reactor of the Nuclear Power Plant of Cernavoda.
'Due to the functioning at the designed parameters in the first quarter this year a volume of 408,238 MWh was produced and delivered from here. The tests of the last 101 turbines with an installed capacity of 252.5 MW initiated in November 2012 were completed at the beginning of 2013,' Margineanu pointed out.
In context, CEZ spokesperson also showed that the first turbine of the Fantanele-Cogealac-Gradina Wind-Power Park became operational on June 1, 2010, and the last one was connected to the grid on November 22, 2012. The total volume of power the new renewable energy production entity generated in 2012 through the capitalisation of the Romanian wind-power potential stood at 965,423 MWh.
Fantanele-Cogealac-Gradina wind-power park is placed in Dobrogea, at 17 kilometres from the Black Sea. Each of the wind turbines installed has a 2.5 MW capacity, is 100-metre high and has an impeller diameter of 99 metres.