Public Funding for Chatleigh Limited

Project proposes to develop a wind energy and telecoms hybrid mast structure, utilising X-Wind Power proprietary 2 bladed vertical axis wind turbine concept. The project aims to develop an integrated solution at 6kW scale and detailed design solution at 80kW scale, i.e. suitable for single operator, or multiple operator telecommunication sites. The project is a collaboration between Sitec Infrastructure Services and X-Wind Power. The X-Wind vertical axis turbine is ideally suited to this application as its blades are entirely above the proposed location for the telecom radio antenea. A horizontal axis turbine would tend to ‘chop’ the radio signals creating unacceptable loss of network quality. Sitec identified X-Wind as the turbine of choice for this application due to its low noise, low vibration, easy maintenance access for both telecoms and the turbine, the long periods between maintence intervals and lastly its small footprint, which is 1/3 of the area of an equivalent conventional turbine.