A challenge which provides Google Avenue View customers an inside view of renewable power websites launched on 29 October.
From a hydropower plant deep beneath a mountain to the highest of a wind turbine, Scottish Renewables’ Renewables360 is described as a first-of-its-kind.
“It takes the general public behind the scenes of the nation’s 42,000-strong, £10 billion a yr renewable power trade,” says the commerce group.
Inexperienced electrical energy and warmth tasks seem as blue dots on Google Maps, so are seen to anybody shopping Google Avenue View, and are introduced collectively in a hub on the Renewables360 dwelling web page.
Claire Mack, Chief Government of Scottish Renewables, mentioned: “The power trade is central to all our lives, however till now the best way by 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 wonderful locations the place clear power is generated, and Google now provides us the chance to share that have with the remainder of the world.”
Websites that are lined by the Renewables360 challenge 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.
Photos taken deep contained in the 440MW ‘hole mountain’ pumped storage hydropower plant in Argyll additionally characteristic, alongside photographs from contained in the world’s strongest tidal turbine in Orkney.
The complete checklist is:
- Cruachan pumped storage hydropower station, Argyll
- Kincardine floating offshore wind farm, Aberdeen
- Muirhall onshore wind farm, Lanarkshire
- Orbital O2 tidal turbine at EMEC, Orkney
- Queens Quay water supply warmth pump, Clydebank
- Renewable Components warehouse, Renfrew
- Photo voltaic EV chargers and battery, Stirling
- Stirling Vitality Centre – taking warmth from waste water
- A renewable power management room, Glasgow
- EMEC’s wave and tidal power take a look at websites, Orkney
Claire continued: “Among the locations we’ve visited to deliver Renewables360 collectively are really outstanding. The pictures which at the moment are accessible for the world to view are breathtaking and take the general public to locations they’d by no means in any other case be capable of go to.
“Renewables now present greater than 100% of Scotland’s electrical energy demand. As an trade we consider that’s one thing which everybody in Scotland may be happy with and may be capable of share. Renewables360 is one a part of that, and that is simply the beginning – as our trade continues to develop we’re searching for extra tasks to incorporate in order that Renewables360 turns into a world-class useful resource which we hope others will copy.”
