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Energy in the Crimea
On the Program of Wind Farm Construction up to the Year 2010 Ukraine has a high potential for wind power generation in its southern regions near the Azov and the Black Sea. Here, the annual mean wind velocities range from 5.5 to 6.2 m/s while the mean annual operating time may be at about 5,000 h. A program for development of wind power generation and construction of windmills in the Crimea for 1996-2010 was adopted. That the Crimea was selected as the priority area is due to a number of considerations, namely:
Aktash Wind Farm in the east of the peninsula uses 11 AVE-250 S type windmills manufactured by Yuzhnoe Research and Production Association. Of these, 5 units are operated in a pilot test mode while a 500-kW and a 220-kW unit are under construction. The prospective overall capacity is limited to 50 MW. Donuzlav Wind Farm uses 53 107-kW units of USW-56-100 type manufactured in Ukraine on order from Windenergo, a US-Ukraine joint venture. The overall capacity is planned at 50 MW. Chernomorsk Wind Farm has 4 AVE-250 S windmills. A 6-unit wind farm equipped with USW-56-100 machines is operated at Vorob'evo. The Program envisages 5 more farms totaling to 200 MW at Saki, Dzhankoi, Mirnoe, Presnye Vody and Vostochnyi Krym. If successful, the Program will raise the total windmill capacity in the Crimea to 480 MW to cover one third of the peninsula's demand and save 290,000 t equivalent fuel per year. The Program also allocated about 9,000,000 hryvnias for a wind power center to be set up at Schelkino. The Center's tasks will be:
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