Seawind to install wind monitoring equipment at wind farm in Chile

Rame Energy’s wholly owned engineering services subsidiary Seawind has been awarded a contract to design, supply and install a new wind monitoring equipment at the 20MW Punta Colorada wind farm in Chile.

Under the contract, awarded by Compania Barrick Chile Generación Limitada, a part of Barrick Gold, Seawind will

Work under the contract include the installation of an 80m tall lattice mast, instrumentation, a solar panel and a data logger with mobile connectivity to provide verification data for the wind climate around six of the ten turbines that comprise the existing Rame-built wind farm.

The contract follows completion of recent upgrade by Rame for one of Barrick’s existing 50m tall monitoring masts as well as the provision of engineering services at Punta Colorada.

Rame Energy CEO Tim Adams said: "This long standing relationship with Barrick continues to bear fruit for the Company and is testament to the quality of our Engineering Services Division, which leverages our expertise both on a regional and technical basis to provide power solutions to heavy industry and mining in particular .

"We continue to see opportunities, as demonstrated in our recent announcement on Cerro Bayo, where the intelligent use of renewable energy can help address the power pricing and availability issues faced by many industrial consumers in the region.

"Our recent acquisition of Beco Solar in the UK clearly bolsters our renewable capabilities in this fuel displacement energy market and we look forward to further announcements in this area as we continue our focus on achieving growth throughout 2014 and beyond."