(Source: Datamonitor)
MAN Diesel, in collaboration with wind turbine manufacturer Enercon and planning and consulting firm Econcern, has said that it is building a wind-diesel hybrid power generation facility on the Caribbean island of Bonaire in the Netherlands Antilles.
The facility comprises a wind park with 12 wind turbines and a biodiesel power plant that will produce power with five MAN diesel engines of type 9L27/38.
The hybrid facility will function as an independent base load power plant from the end of 2009 onwards, supplying the entire island with a total of 25MW of eco-friendly energy.
The value of the order for MAN Diesel is over E15 million. The customer is Water en Energie Bedrijf Bonaire (WEB), the state-run energy provider in the Netherlands Antilles.
While the 12 wind turbines are positioned on the north coast of Bonaire, the associated biodiesel power plant is situated around 10km further to the south west.
Stephan Mey, head of the power plants business unit at MAN Diesel, said: "Generating electricity with wind or solar energy is easy wherever the electricity can be fed into a major network. As a sole source of energy, like it is here on the islands, for instance, neither solar nor wind farms are able to deliver a sufficiently constant supply of energy."
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