Day 3

8/13 (Day 3)

  Today after breakfast in hotel, when I stepped out of the door in hotel, what I felt most impressive was the cold weather, though the sun was shining. I felt excited for today’s trip since we were going to visit wind farm at Osorio.

  The wind farms are one of the section of an intentional company called Elecnor. The company holds different wind farms in different countries such as Canada, Spain and Brazil and plans to operate in Australia. The wind farms in Osorio are able to produce 318 MW per year with the efficiency of 99%. The turbines have more advantages than the conventional ones since they create less sound, operate more efficiently and safely. In the control room, we can find out different parameters including wind speed, direction, turbines speed.

   We also saw beautiful scenery in the field. 125 windmills lined up neatly and thousand of grazing animals walked on the grass leisurely. It was really amazing to see that wind electricity generation could be conducted without threatening the native grazing function. What a harmonious energy! I believe wind energy could be a feasible energy alternative!

    After visiting the farm, we stopped by to have lunch and tasted the delicious Brazilian barbeque. Then we went back to Florianopolis and finally travel to a local shopping mall at night.