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Battered U.K. Turbines Switch On After Halting in 165 Miles per Hour Winds
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http://webfarm.bloomberg.com/news/2011-12-09/battered-u-k-turbines-switch-on-after-halting-in-165-mph-winds.html

he U.K.’s wind farms returned to normal after halting yesterday to protect them from the strongest gales in 25 years.

Almost two-thirds of Britain’s 5.25 billion pounds ($8.2 billion) of wind power capacity may have automatically stopped generating yesterday as gusts triggered protection mechanisms, National Grid Plc said. Gusts on the summit of Cairngorm, Scotland’s sixth-highest mountain, peaked at 165 miles per hour (265 kilometers per hour), the most since 1986, according to data on the U.K.’s Met Office website.

“It’s incredibly unusual wind speeds that we experienced, public transport’s been disrupted and there’s been huge amounts of structural damage,” said Niall Stuart, chief executive officer in Glasgow at Scottish Renewables, a lobby group that promotes cleaner energy.

Britain has about 4,000 megawatts of wind turbines linked to the nation’s electricity network, enough to supply 8 million European homes. Infinis Plc, the renewables company owned by Guy Hands, is investigating after one of its turbines caught fire yesterday in an incident involving a machine made by Vestas Wind Systems A/S, the world’s largest turbine maker.

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