The Sorne Hill Wind Farm is a wind farm located in Buncrana, Inishowen Donegal Ireland and erected in 2006. The farm is run by Tapbury Management Limited.
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Phase 1 of the farm has 16 gearless wind turbines, type Enercon E-70 2 [MW] with a 64 metre hub height and 71 metre rotor diameter giving a total capacity of 32 megawatts. Phase 2 of the farm which is an additional 6.9 MW from three Enercon E-70 2.3 MW turbines were installed in the autumn of 2007. This makes Sorne Hill Wind Farm, at 38 MW the third largest wind farm in Ireland as of August 2008.
It was announced previously, that VRB Power Systems Inc. had been contracted to supply a 1.5 MW × 8-hour vanadium redox battery system (to enable surplus electricity to be generated when demand is low, and improve consistency of supply to the electricity network). [1] [2]. It is unclear if the Flow Battery will now be installed, as VRB Power Systems, Inc. has since appointed a receiver, filed for insolvency [3] and had its assets bought. [1]