Bangui Windmills - The first in Southeast Asia |
The first power generating windmill farm in Southeast Asia, commonly known as Bangui Wind Farm, is found in the municipality of Bangui.
The Bangui Windmills are located in Bangui, Ilocos Norte, Philippines. The windmills, officially referred to as the NorthWind Bangui Bay Project, were a project by the NorthWind Development Corporation as a practice renewable energy sources and to help reduce the greenhouse gases that cause global warming. The project is the first “Wind Farm” in the Philippines consisting of wind turbines on-shore facing the South China Sea and considered to be the biggest in Southeast Asia. The project sells electricity to the Ilocos Norte Electric Cooperative (INEC) and provides 40% of the power requirements of Ilocos Norte via Transco Laoag.
(source: http://en.wikipilipinas.org/)
(source: http://en.wikipilipinas.org/)
Each turbines which is equipped with three 41-meter blades is 70 meters tall. These 15 wind turbines rises along on a beach (9 kilometers wide) in Bangui which have become a popular tourist attraction.
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