Prime minister of Scotland Aleks Selmond declared intention to extend the greatest in Europe waterside vetryanuyu power-station Whitelee. According to him, company ScottishPower Renewables got permission of authorities to increase the amount of turbines of the station from 140 to 176. Due to it the station will serve 250 thousand houses in place of 180 thousands. In addition, expansion of the station will allow to create approximately 300 additional workplaces, reports BBC News..Station Whitelee, located not far away from Glasgow, began to produce electric power
in January, 2008. The area of power-station is comparable with the area of center Glasgow. However until now its building ignores finished. Now that a request on 36 additional turbines is approved by authorities, ScottishPower Renewables plans to heave up a question about expansion of power-station
yet on 45 turbines.Possibly, in the near time the station Whitelee will begin in daylight saving time to open for visitors, arriving on a foot or arriving on bicycles.The professor of the Cambridge university David Makkey said to the journalists, that expansion Whitelee – important, but
far not last step on a way to an ecologically safe electroenergy. According to him, for the improvement of ecological situation to 2030 in the United Kingdom it must be in 100 times megascopic number of vetryanykh power-stations. Possibly, also will be in
five times to increase the number of AES, passes Lenta.ru. Vetryanaya power-station Whitelee. Photo from a site iberdrolarenovables.es
