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| 26/12/2011 | European Solar Prizes 2011
| Demonstration Bioclimatic House received the European Solar Prize 2011 in the category of “Education and vocational training”.
European Solar Prizes 2011 are given to spark and strengthen the public interest in renewable energy and were presented in Berlin by EUROSOLAR in cooperation with KfW – Bankengruppe. Dr. Axel Nawrath, Member of the KfW Executive Board, and Prof. Peter Droege, President of EUROSOLAR, welcomed the attendees, along with Jo Leinen, Member of the European Parliament, who also congratulated the winners.
Created by EUROSOLAR in 1994, the European Solar Prize has since given this year for a total of 12 exemplary projects and initiatives in the field of renewable energy use. Thus, at the award ceremony it was recognized achievement, creativity and innovation projects from Germany, Bulgaria, Italy, Austria, Spain, Denmark, Turkey and Switzerland. In addition to Sotavento, were winners:
The District of Rhein-Hunsrück (Germany)
The City of Svoge (Bulgaria)
Younicos AG (Germany)
Heizplan AG (Switzerland)
The Danish Small Wind Turbine Association (Denmark)
Architetture Sostenibili (Italy)
"Green Nature", CNN Türk (Turkey)
Fundación Sotavento Galicia (Spain)
Phaesun GmbH (Germany)
Dipl.-HLFL-Ing. Josef Meisl (Austria)
Petra Jebens-Zirkel (Spain)
Swiss Federal Council (Switzerland)
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| Download  | | | | 19/09/2011 | Begins summer hours
| We remind that since 23rd of June we open our facilities to visitors on weekends and not working days in summer time, wich is from 12:30 to 14:30 and from 16:30 to 19:30.
The management of the visit must be made through the following numbers: 981563777 (working days) and 981441020 (not working days).
| | | | 23/02/2011 | A group of European teachers involved in The Comenius Programme visited Sotavento
| A group of teachers from different schools in Europe visited the facilities of our Wind Farm.
The group, coming from countries such as France, Italy and Romania, is part of The Comenius Programme, a project promoted by the European Community which aims to help young people and educational staff better understand the range of European cultures, languages and values.
During the visit, teachers specialized in different educational areas, could learn important project such as the Accumulation of Wind Energy in Hydrogen or Demonstration Bioclimatic House and they visited the control room of Sotavento and the area of Energy Saving.
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| | Download | | | | 17/05/2010 | European Solar Days 2010 in Sotavento
| For third consecutive year we participated in European Solar Days, celebrated from 17th to 23rd of May with over 7,000 events in 16 European countries.
The main objective of this event is to introduce solar energy through its dissemination in the media and make people aware about the importance of using it. For this reason many events are celebrated in different countries such as solar festivals, conferences, tours, exhibitions, etc.
We also join one more year at this event, directing our activities to a wide range of ages and groups and with the possibility of visiting the nearly completed work on the demonstration bioclimatic house built in our facilities. In this way, and throughout the European Solar Days 2010, visits to the wind farm facilities will incaminada to know better this alternative way of obtaining energy from a clean and inexhaustible resource such as the Sun.
As the last day of the event on Sunday 23, anyone can visit Sotavento and learn new ways to use active and passive solar energy (Trombe wall, thermal and photovotaic solar, etc.).
If time allows, we invite visitors to participate in the tasting and demonstration of the possibilities of a parabolic solar cooker, where we make chocolat with ecology milk.
Remember that to participate in this event you must call prior to Wind Farm's telephone.
More information:
www.solarday.eu
www.diasolar.es
| | | | 28/01/2010 | More tan 22,000 persons visited Sotavento in 2009
| With over 22,000 visitants accumulated in 2009 and surpassing the 1,800 persons on average per month, we continue to become a benchmark in the field of dissemination of renewable energy in our community.
The most of the visits by appointment during the period 2009 were conducted by university and technical groups from different sectors interested in innovative research projects being undertaken in our Wind Farm. Families, individuals, tourists and the general public complete the rest of the visitants, who came from different parts of Spanish geography and even internationally.
Already are more than 140,000 visitants accumulated since we started activities in 2002 and 38% of formal education centers in Galicia visited our facilities on some occasion, converting to Sotavento in part of the academic program of many schools, colleges and universities throughout the course.
| | | | 05/06/2008 | Sotavento presents a new guide on saving and energetic efficiency
| On the occasion of the celebration of the World Day of the Environment, the Foundation Sotavento Galicia presents a new guide destined to foment the saving and the efficiency in the use of the resources. The aim of this publication is that the readers are aware of the importance of changing their habits in order to achieve a model of sustainable development that allows the conservation of the planet.
Under the title “Abre a porta do aforro e a eficiencia enerxética”, the document was divided in three principal areas that affect in environmental basic aspects. The use and consumption responsible for the water, for the electricity and for the transport appears of schematic form and with realistic, practical and daily advices.
This guide, who will submit free to the people who visit the Experimental Wind Farm Sotavento, comes to reinforce and to improve the contents and equipments extend that the Foundation Sotavento Galicia destines to foment the saving and energetic efficiency among more than 20.000 annual visitors that it receives.
| | | | 28/02/2008 | Sotavento receives to the visitor number 100,000
| The visitor number 100.000, from the beginning of the Educational - Divulgative Plan in the year 2002, was the pupil of 3 º of ESO (obligatory education) of the CPI Monte Caxado of As Pontes, Antonio Gómez Rodríguez. To celebrate it, staff for the Foundation delivered him diverse didactic material.
| | | | 18/02/2008 | Sotavento and the Vertical Partner company sign an agreement of collaboration for the formation and training of technical specializing personnel
| The formative activities, which carry out in the facilities of the Experimental Wind Farm Sotavento, centre on works on height by means of suspension with ropes and are destined for the repair, inspection and cleanliness of spades and towers.
The cleanliness of spades is a maintenance that must be realized from time to time to optimize the performance of the wind turbines. The innovation of these actions centres on the employment of equipments that allow the descent from the top of the towers instead of using derricks.
Given the situation of Galicia as for its wind potential, the actions directed to facilitate and optimize the maintenances of the wind turbines of more than 120 Galician wind farms, receive an enormous importance. Let's remember that Galicia is a worldwide wind power counting with near 3,000 MW of installed power and with approximately 4,000 wind turbines.
Besides the educational and investigative activities, Sotavento also is a protagonist of this type of formative activities directed to the technical specialization and to the optimization of the utilization of the wind resource.
| | | | 06/12/2007 | The Foundation Sotavento Galicia and LACTALIS (President) sign an agreement to promote the knowledge and possibilities of the solar power
| To such an effect, the manager of the Foundation, Jose Núñez and Lactalis, signed an agreement by which free tasting in Sotavento using ecological milk prepared with solar technology.
This activity will be started immediately and will spread throughout all the year round 2008.
According to the Foundation Terra, the solar kitchens "offer a real alternative to 1,000 millions of m3 of fuelwood that they are in use in the world for cooking, provoking climatic alterations due to the deforestation and the desertification of wide zones of the third world ".
| | | | 25/05/2007 | It was presented in As Pontes the disc "Música do vento" engraving with sounds of the wind turbines of Sotavento
| In the musical unique experience celebrated in the facilities of Sotavento one year ago, they presented in novelty the musical pieces composed by Ignacio Sanz using the sounds of the wind turbines of the park. Recently, the musician has been rewarded by the Autonomous Government of Galicia with the third prize of musical excellence that implies the edition of the pieces on a disc that goes for title "Music do vento".
| | | | 24/07/2006 | The solar firm PST installs in Sotavento its new thermodynamic solar panels
| Solar PST, a firm situated in A Coruña, has installed in Sotavento its thermodynamic solar panels. This new technology combines the principles of heat pump with solar energy in order to produce hot water.
The functioning, according to the firm, is created by the circulating of a fluid, able to extract the heat from the environment and transmit it to water by using solar radiation as well as air and rain temperature, according to the principles of the French physician Carnot.
A fluid enters the solar panels in a liquid form at -5/-15ºC. This fluid is a refrigerant. The panels capture solar radiation during sun hours, absorb the superior ambient temperature during the whole day and the one from rain when it rains. This variation of temperature makes the fluid gasify, being sent to a thermodynamic block.
At this point, the compressor of the block, by pressure, elevates the fluid’s temperature to 110/120ºC, which is transmitted to the water circuit by a temperature exchanger.
The equipment implemented in Sotavento shows, in a real way, the necessary installation for the consumption of hot water of a 5-person-family and is formed by an only panel of 8kg, connected to a 300 litre tank. It was installed at the end of June and can be visited and proved from Monday to Sunday, within the visit hours of the wind farm, which you can find in this website. This technology can also be used to heat houses and pools.
More information: www.solarpst.com
| | | | 21/12/2004 | More than 40,000 visitors at Sotavento
| Since the beginning of the Plan for Education and Divulgation in January 2002, there have been over 40,000 visitors of all kind of ages, origins, communities and previous knowledge.
| | | | 16/12/2004 | A new system to carry out exterior maintenance jobs in aerogenerators is being tested at Sotavento
| During the program for the implantation of work procedures that improve safety conditions of its staff, the aerogenerator producer Vestas Eólica S.A. has tested a nes crane-lorry supplied with the latest technology for jobs in heights.
This new kind of platforms allows the working in aerogenerators at a maximum height of 70 metres, improving considerably the safety of the different maintenance jobs that are necessary for a good working of the machines. Furthermore, due to their exclusive design for this type of performances, they facilitate the jobs and increase their working possibilities.
Vestas Eólica S.A. has chosen the Sotavento Experimental Windfarm as the perfect place to show the efficiency of this system because there are aerogenerators of different technologies and heights. The event, which took place on December 16th, was attended by producers as well as maintenance staff of the main firms of this sector in Galicia.
| | | | 16/12/2004 | VESTAS proves elevation system in SOTAVENTO wind farm
| Vestas (old Neg Micon) it proves an elevation system on the outside of wind turbine generator that completes the normative one as regards security, reducing times of performance, increasing security and possibilities of performances.
So far the performances to carry out in shovels, towers and external part; one came carrying out with cranes without pertinent approval, and movements without control from elevation platform.
| | | | 10/12/2004 | Sotavento gets a prize for its educational work
| The European Association Eurosolar has awarded Sotavento the Special Prize for educational initiatives. The competition, which this year is held for the third time, rewards exemplary initiatives or developments in the field of the use of renewable energy in Spain.
| | | | 11/11/2004 | Sotavento presents a new exhibition called Mills of the World
| The exhibition, composed by the 21 most significant mills in history, can be visited at present in the Divulgation Room of the Windfarm. The collection is completed by simple schemes of each of the mills to ensure a better comprehension of their working.
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