Wind Farm
GREEN ENERGY HOLDING, Romania
Summary
March 2013
CONTENTS
1 PREAMBLE
2 LOCATION, DESIGN
3 DESCRIPTION
4 IMPACT
5 MANAGEMENT AND MONITORING
1
PREAMBLE
This
summary provides an overview of the findings of the Impact Assessment Social
and Environmental (ESIA) conducted for the construction and operation of a wind
farm with a capacity of 1000MW / h, south of Mangalia, Constanta county,
Romania by Green Energy Foundation and Green Energy Holding.
This
summary has been prepared to provide a brief overview of social impact
assessment study and environmental-occupational.
2
LOCATION, DESIGN
2.1
Locating a farm and Design
The
wind farm will be located near Mangalia town, Constanta county, 17 km west of
the Black Sea coast. (Shown in the following figure)
The
park will include 1,000 wind turbines, connected by underground cables to a new
power station, located on site, which in turn will be connected by underground
power lines than one central power station, located throughout the inside. Will
be built about 15 kilometers of road.
In
the project area there are no human settlements. Turbines are placed at a
distance of approximately 40 m from each other, we consider two parallel rows
of turbines at 40 m distance between them.
3
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
The
wind farm will consist of 1,000 turbines, each with a capacity of
1MW, with a maximum total
capacitance for the entire wind farm of up to 1000MW. Each turbine includes,
for the tip, a tower with a housing containing electrical generator turbine,
gearbox and rotor transformer. Total height of the turbine is 70 or 80 m, rotor
shaft is connected to the rotor blades with a diameter of 25m. Dunt horizontal
blades. Each turbine will be placed on a small cement foundation, permanent,
with a maximum diameter of 4m.
Access
to the turbine is made only from European road E 87, doorways and roads that we
build. All park will be bordered by metal fence. Park area will serve only to
produce electricity. Inside the park will not use any plot to agrigulture or
other destinations, so there is no risk of breaking underground networks agricole
campaigns, plowing or other operations.
The
turbines will be connected to a power supply. Power station will be connected
to the high voltage network.
3.1
The construction of annexes and delimiting the perimeter
The
project will be executed by ourselves, GREEN ENERGY HOLDING under professional
guidance of GREEN ENERGY FOUNDATION. Therefor we divided the workforce into 3
teams:
1.Since the last months of
2013 will begin restricting land by a metal fence and construction of 15 km of
industrial road,
2.The second team will build
office building,
3.The third team will build
a repair shop and an electric testing laboratory.
3.2
The ground installation of the turbines.
Turbines
installation will be done on ourself, GREEN ENERGY HOLDING under professional
guidance of GREEN ENERGY FOUNDATION. Technical team will do burying power
lines, substations construction of foundations, paving and restoration of
temporary. Delivery of equipment and materials, electrical work, installation
of turbines, commissioning documentation Construction Permit (Technical
project, details of execution and management plans) will be developed before
construction starts. Construction will be reviewed by the State Construction
Inspectorate - Constanta County Inspectorate for Constructions.
3.3
Traffic
Construction will be
associated with increased traffic, both with heavy equipment (trucks and
construction equipment) and motor vehicles for the carriage of passengers for
movement of construction personnel on site. During peak construction, might as
daily on-site visits to be dozens of additional trucks and cars, with maybe
10-15 trips per hour
peak. Trucks include:
·
Vehicles restricted (VAR) with a length of 19
m or greater tonnage of 42.5 tons, which will be used to transport wind turbine
components;
·
Semi-trailers used to transport platforms
installed foundation formwork, steel reinforced foundations, transformer
substation of 100 MW power project, various electrical substation equipment to
the Project;
·
Mixers.
3.4
Human Resources
During
construction, on average, will be employed about 275-300 people, although this
number could increase to 400. Between these jobs have provided and the
following:
ORGANIZATION SUMMARY for the first two years of the project:
Name Post / Number of
individual labor contracts:
Unskilled workers:175
Team leaders:20
Foreman:5
Mechanics and drivers (for
equipment):60
TESA: 8-9
Management:3
Total approximately 272 or
273 employees
After two years in which we
will reach the final form of the Green Energy Park, we again employ staff as
follows:
·
Each turbine will enter the review twice a
year, excluding wear on operating parameters. Each review lasts up to 10 days.
A single arithmetic concludes that only maintenance required turbines 20,000
days of work annually. Such calendar year is approximately 250 days, we are
required from the start to employ at least 1,000 only for maintenance.
·
50 people will deal with electronic
monitoring and repairs of plant and Green Energy Foundation will provide
continuous training of such personnel in charge.
·
150 people will be employed to guard
·
150 firefighters will be hired
·
10 people will be employed in the medical
field also
·
100 drivers and crane operators will find job
in Green Energy Project
·
5 maids
·
5 receptionists, etc..
3.5
Authorisations
Construction
of the wind farm will attain a number of approvals and permits. These include:
·
Urbanism Certificate (UC), Urban Plan (PUZ)
and Urban Area Plan. Planning for windfarm certificate will be issued by the
City of Mangalia;
·
Agreement on the Environment by Environmental
Protection Agency Constanta;
·
Building permit. Once released, it will be
valid for two years, just maximum period required to finish the wind farm;
Operating
license, which will submit documentation to obtain approval upon completion of
construction;
Technical
connection approval (ATR) for power lines, for which it will seek approval when
will obtain the building permit.
3.6
Public Consultations
A
public meeting to discuss documentation Urban Plan (PUZ) to be held at City
Hall Mangalia, which will be made public with a useful period of time before
the meeting by advertisement in a newspaper of wide circulation and by posting
the Hall bulletin board Mangalia.
3.7
Land Acquisition
Landowners are properly paid
after the sale-purchase contracts.
Nobody will have to
relocate.
Transactions are being
negotiated.
4
IMPACT
4.1
Introduction
The
EIA report assesses the impact forms for all phases Wind Park Project during
construction, operation and shutdown.
These
impacts are summarized below. Where mitigation measures are proposed to
highlight the adverse impacts or environmental benefits, they are referred to
as key points.
4.2
Soils
Soils
belonging Green Energy Project site are fertile, but are negatively impacted by
erosion and exacerbated by the dry climate. There is no evidence of any form of
soil contamination on the project site. Soil compaction due to movement of
heavy vehicles and machinery during the construction period will be reduced by
implementing best practices for handling soil, including segregation and refilling
excavated topsoil and subsoil. Plan Accidental Pollution Prevention and Control
will be implemented to reduce the risk of soil contamination during
construction phase, including starage fuel tanks and enclosed area and secure
storage on impervious waste and implementing strict procedures for refueling.
Erosion
during construction will be reduced by implementing a water management plan and
erosion control. This will include topsoil storage for later use, limiting
areas temporarily affected during construction, install temporary erosion
control measures to limit water leaks (such as berms and other facilities for
silt retention) and temporary restoration of immediately after completion of
the construction.
Therefore,
no significant impacts are anticipated during construction. During the
operational phase equipment maintenance will be consistent with the Plan for
Prevention and Control of Pollution accidents will be developed during the
operational phase. The transformers will be placed in boreholes to control any
potential spills or dispersions.
Mention
that throughout the whole project agriculture land will become industrial land.
We undertake, at the end of the project to render it to agriculture, but during
the project in the park Green Energy we deal exclusively with clean electricity
production, not agriculture.
4.3
Water Resources
Bottled
water stored in tanks or will be used to provide the necessary in early
construction phase.
During
the operational phase, the wind farm will need water leaks and will not be
registered on the site except site pooling on the surface of the paved areas
(including access roads, the platforms on pedestal cranes and turbines). For
this, we conclude contract for water supply and sewerage services. Green Energy
Park will be connected to the water supply and sewerage of the city of
Mangalia. Thus, we eliminate pooling, which are small anyway, there will be no
significant impacts on the rate of leakage or natural hydrographic network
during operation of the wind farm.
4.4
Biodiversity
4.4.1
Avifauna
Via
Pontica migration corridor of birds is at a distance of 5km, so it does not
require special problem. It will use ultrasound equipment to protect birds.
4.4.2
Chiroptera
Monitoring
bat species will be done in operational phase to assess the actual impact on
bats and to determine the need to implement additional measures to mitigate the
impact on the species. From studies so far, it is shown that the area would not be populated with
bat species, but we will continue monitoring after project start.
4.4.3
Other elements of flora and fauna
The
wind farm is not located near reservations sites or other places with considerable
biodiversity.
Wildlife
monitoring studies have identified the following species considered important
European ground squirrels (Spermophilus citellus) and steppe lizard (Podarcis
taurica) and dragon – a snake (Coluber (Dolichophis) caspius). A number of
other studies will be conducted before construction begins to identify any
elements of rare flora and fauna in areas that will be affected and they will
be used to plan appropriate measures to mitigate impacts for each site
separately. This could involve, for example, relocation of animals or change
position slightly to avoid dens existing turbines and schedule construction paired
off periods / nesting, whether these measures will be needed to protect
important species.
From
the information we have, in the park there could be species to be removed and
relocated to start constructions. From our estimates, rabbits could live inside
the farm, but we don’t want to change their biorhythm. That's why we take care
to relocate them near.
As
wild boar migration from Bulgaria to the north, we mention that we took into
account the exact location of Green Energy farm in their migration corridor.
For this we decided to close perimeter fence so that there is no trouble.
Any
land suffered temporary impacts during construction works will be restored and
revegetated.
Will
acquire and use temporary special ultrasound equipment to remove animals that
can suffer.
4.5
Elements of landscape and visual impact
We
performed a visual impact assessment and landscape to the presence of turbines
and its elements are given below. This evaluation was conducted in accordance
with the best practices in landscape and visual impact assessment. In general,
the evaluation concluded that the impact generated landscape and visual
perception issues will be low or moderate to low (which implies that it is not
expected to create significant adverse impacts).
Developers
will assist in reducing the impact on the landscape and visual perspectives in:
·
Design of new access routes to follow, as far
as possible the natural contours of the land;
·
Reducing the need for immediate restoration
of vegetation removed and temporary work areas;
·
Limiting turbine installation at the
appropriate indicators for labor protection and placing them on doorways
turbine. Placing advertising materials and logos turbines shall be permitted;
·
Distant turbines and any above ground
structures at the end of the wind farm operational.
·
The turbines will be located in two parallel
linear arrays, the same distance. This will create an image of order. Between
the two rows of turbines will be highway access, modern, parallel and
equidistant to the two rows of turbines.
As
requested by the Romanian Civil Aeronautical Authority, wind towers, spindles
and blades will be painted white and the towers will be equipped with exterior
lights.
4.6
Air Quality
There
will be no significant increases in air pollution generated during construction
and operation phases of the Project. During the construction phase, air
emissions will consist of dust generated from construction activities /
rehabilitation (excavation, movement of construction equipment) and emissions
from combustion from vehicles and construction equipment at the site. During
the construction / rehabilitation will apply dust control measures and no
significant adverse impacts are expected dust generated.
Emissions
from construction equipment and vehicles will be small scale and temporary and
will be minimized by ensuring appropriate equipment. Therefore, no significant
impacts are expected to do so.
During
operation, there will be no significant air emissions because they will be
limited to occasional traffic and maintenance activities.
In
addition, each unit of electricity coming from wind energy Project GREEN ENERGY
FOR ROMANIA replace one unit of electricity generated by other means, including
fossil fuels. Therefore, the wind farm development contributes to the reduction
of greenhouse gas emissions and other pollutants generated by producing
electricity from conventional fossil fuels (mainly sulfur and nitrogen oxides).
It is estimated that the project operation GREEN ENERGY FOR ROMANIA will cause
a reduction of over 800 000 tonnes of emissions of harmful gases every year, if
the generation of electricity by wind power plant is compared with electricity
generation using current mixture consists mainly of fossil fuels used to
generate electricity in Romania
4.7
Waste
Waste
generated during construction will consist mainly of basement rocks and other
inert construction materials such as concrete and garbage.
Project
developers will reduce waste generation and will reuse, recycle or recover
waste as possible, using approved recycling facilities.
Topsoil
will be stored and then reused to restore some areas after completion of
construction activities. Excess subsoil, rocks, other inert waste and
non-recyclable solid waste will be disposed at municipal waste place. Small
quantities of hazardous waste (paints, oils, etc.) will be taken over by a
company authorized waste collection.
All
waste activities will be conducted in accordance with Waste Management Plan and
no significant adverse effects are expected to do so.
Amount
of waste generated during operation will be very low and will come especially
from maintenance operations. To remove any doubt, we conclude from home
sanitation contract.
4.8
Noise and Vibration
During
construction and operation phases will generate noise. during construction,
noise will be generated by the plant and equipment (excavators, bulldozers,
cranes, generators, etc.) and vehicles (trucks ready concrete mixer,
construction machinery and cargo, including heavy transport equipment).
Contractors
shall notify nearby residents and authorities held before major construction
activities that could generate disturbing noise levels (eg turbine building
nearby, the heaviest traffic periods).
Machines
impacts generated by construction and equipment will be temporary and will be
limited to small areas of the site at any time Project GREEN ENERGY FOR
ROMANIA.
No
construction work will occur at night, but they may occasionally work on
weekends to run.
Much
of the traffic generated by construction of the Project will be on the European
road E 87, which is a highly traveled main road. Additional noise produced
during construction phases will not therefore be a cause to concern. Noise from
wind turbines during operation, the most nearby houses were analyzed in the
Environmental Impact Assessment and Cumulative Impacts Assessment. Cumulative
impacts assessment concluded that noise levels will be within acceptable
limits. Will develop mitigation measures under the law (STAS 10.009/1988 and
Order no. 1028/2004) or levels recommended by the World Health Organisation
(WHO) through the 'Guidelines for Community Noise' and night noise guidelines
for Europe ' . Mitigation measures could include installation of screens /
protective barriers, agreed with locals Adjusting turbines and other such
measures. It is important to note that weather and other conditions (rain,
wind, etc.) affects the direction and distance at which sound can be heard.
During the operational phase, developers, at the request of local residents,
will measure noise levels in homes near the turbines and implement additional
mitigation measures, where you will need to ensure that noise is within the
limits allowed by law.
4.9
Traffic and transport
For
all phases of project-specific traffic construction phase will be on the road E
87 and our new acces way. In peak periods of construction, through a single
point could go up to 20-25 vehicles per hour. It will develop a traffic
management plan will include an assessment of traffic impacts and health risks,
along with appropriate measures to mitigate impacts, such as installing signs
and security, to ensure that control measures are ruduction and maintain risk
at an acceptable level.
The
final route will be discussed and agreed in consultation with the Constanta
County Council and the National Company of Motorways and National Roads before
construction starts.
The
project will generate very little traffic during the operation, with no significant
impacts.
4.10
The use of land
As
mentioned in Section 2.2, all of the total area of the park will be bought.
Sole purpose of the acquisition will be producing electricity only.
4.11
Employment opportunities and other economic benefits
As
mentioned in Section 3.3, during construction, will create a significant number
of temporary employment opportunities (2 years). It will also create, during
operation, a big number of jobs of a permanent character (probably 2,000 of
which 1,500 will be in charge of monitoring and repairs and maintenance of
plant turbines and Green Energy Foundation will provide continuous training of
such staff for free). Development companies will help in the recruitment and
retention of local employment in these jobs by providing realistic information
on employment opportunities, making publicly known vacancies and providing
training courses for permanent positions. We will keep in touch with A.J.O.F.M.
Constancy and technical high schools in the county.
Purchase
local goods and services during the construction and operational periods will
have a positive impact on the local economy. In addition, GREEN ENERGY
Foundation will pay annual taxes to Mangalia city budget throughout the project
life cycle, which is expected to be at least 50 years.
Please note that the largest nearby town
has 40,000 inhabitants and we provide 2,000 jobs.
4.12
Social Impacts
Social
impacts are expected during construction period is negligible.
Local
workers will already have housing in neighboring localities and remaining
workers will be easier accommodation in a hotel in the area was bought to be
modernized and equipped with all necessary facilities.
Other
workers who do not have accommodation provided we facilitate relocation by
providing partial salary advances and settlement of rent. We do not agree module
housing and we will never use.
All
employees will be required to adhere to a strict code of conduct that prohibits
disturbing people nearby. It will set up and implement procedures to determine
appropriate behavior of security personnel from other members of the local
population.
4.13
Cultural Heritage
Project
area were identified historical or archaeological sites.
Therefore
no significant impacts are foreseen. However, it will be done and will put in
place a procedure to manage incidental findings, to ensure that any unexpected
discovery during construction period is correctly identified, protected and
evaluated in detail.
4.14
Electromagnetic Signals
Wind
turbines have the potential to jam electromagnetic signals used for
telecommunications, navigation and radar equipment. For these situations, we
contacted all the relevant authorities, so have not identified any problem in
the operation of the wind farm.
4.15
Emergencies
Wind
farms operating in cold climates may suffer in certain weather conditions due
to a malfunction or frost and ice accumulation on rotor blades can lead to the
phenomenon of "roll" of the rotor blades or ice from the wind
turbine, which could affect public safety. The rotor blades of a wind turbine
can also suffer effects because of wind shear intensity.
Development
companies take measures to reduce this risk by designing turbines that stop
automatically when ice accumulation or high speed wind and by conducting
regular checks and maintenance works. In addition, GREEN ENERGY park is closed,
there will be no agricultural, thus reducing the risk of impact if unlikely, of
an accident.
4.16
Cumulative impacts
To
achieve Cumulative Impacts Assessment are not known other parks in the next
areas.
5
MANAGEMENT AND MONITORING
5.1
Social and Environmental Management
Key
mechanism for social and environmental management during detailed design and
construction phases of the unpredictable will be to obtain licenses, permits
and approvals issued by the Romanian authorities. Each turbine will enter the
review twice a year, excluding wear on operating parameters.
5.2
Reporting
Green
Energy Foundation will make available to the Romanian authorities any reports
required by the agreements, notices and permits.
In
addition, important elements of the project will be made known to the locals
and other third parties in accordance with stakeholder involvement plan.
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