Bangui Windmills — Attraction in Ilocos Norte

Breathtaking windmills by the sea. Entrance of 10 pesos per adult when entering the general barangay area. If you've never seen a large windmill, now's your chance. It's a nice place for a scenic video or for photos.

The distance is far from the landing site, you need to do a long walk down. While walking down, you'll see some souvenir shops. If you like the wind, the windmills will get you into the good mood.

Did not see anyone swimming or having a picnic when we came in. It's too hot and the wind blew harder. The waters were beautiful and relaxing though. It can be refreshing to the eyes.

As to how hot it was that morning (about 9am), my faux leather gloves for cosplay shrinked! The bottom heels from my ankle boots were gone after walking in that hot sand. And even with a hat or an umbrella, the stickiness of the seashore breeze with the humidity can be shocking. Stayed for 10 minutes at the scenic pictorial spots and had to walk right back up immediately to avoid a heat stroke.

Some of our tour mates tried the local photographer who will take photos using your mobile phone at 50 pesos. They do funny tricks like you're holding the windmill and stuff like that. For solo travelers, you can try it out, they're good and the elder people with us were amused. They also offered to do my photos but the weather was too hot for me so I skipped on it and hurried back for some shade.

Souvenirs here are costly according to the local driver who did our tour and advised us to go straight to other sources that were cheaper. We did go there later, but the other sources were quite far that the amount of effort to get there (if you're driving on your own) would be well much the price of the souvenirs onsite if you consider the gasoline and transportation. I think the prices onsite the windmills itself are fair.

Perhaps coming here at an earlier time can work out well too if you want to take more photos and videos. It's definitely a...

The The Bangui Windmills wind farm is recognized as the largest in Southeast Asia and sells power Ilocos Norte Electric Cooperative (INEC). The expected life span of the wind generation equipment is 21 years.

The Northwind Bangui Bay Project estimates that 56,788 tons of CO2e (tons of carbon dioxide equivalent) of greenhouse gases will be reduced per year for the duration of the project activity. That’s 1.2 million tons of CO2!

This gives Ilocos Norte when combined with hydro-electric power generation, one of the lowest carbon emission footprints in Asia and certainly within developed or developing countries.

The towers are an impressive 60 meters high and are located just 10 meters from the sea edge. Each wind turbine is capable of producing electricity up to a maximum capacity of 1.65MW.

The turbines have three vertically oriented rotor blades on top of a 50 metre high tubular tower. The nacelle (or casing), which encloses the generator, the gear box and the yaw mechanism (which turns the blades into the wind), is at the rear of the rotor blades. Each wind turbine has a 6-meter diameter base.

You can also visit and look at the windmills and have a cold drink or hot coffee at the Kang Kang café there and be hypnotized as the graceful blades slowly rotate.

STAYING IN BANGUI?

There a couple of places to stay locally and these are recommended

VILLA FERNANDO BEACH RESORT

Location Poblacion, Bangui and this resort has 9 guest rooms

PAGTARUSAN LODGE

Location Brgy. Gavida Street, Brgy. San Lorenzo Bangui,...

Bangui Wind Farm is a wind farm in Bangui, Ilocos Norte, Philippines. The wind farm uses 20 units of 70-meter (230 ft) high Vestas V82 1.65 MW wind turbines, arranged in a single row stretching along a 9-kilometer (5.6 mi) shoreline off Bangui Bay, facing the West Philippine Sea. angui Bay consisted of 15 of those wind turbines, each with a maximum production capacity of 1.65 MW of electric power, making a total of 24.75 MW. These 15 on-shore turbines are spaced 326 meters (1,070 ft) apart, each 70 meters (230 ft) high, with 41 meters (135 ft) long blades, with a rotor diameter of 82 meters (269 ft) and a wind swept area of 5,281 square meters (56,840 sq ft). Phase II was completed on August 2008, and added five more of the same wind turbines, bringing the total maximum capacity to 33 MW. Ayala Corporation energy platform AC Energy, which already holds the controlling shares in Bangui Wind Farm as of 2021, has announced its intent to acquire 100% of the shares of NorthWind[1] in order to boost their renewable energy portfolio,[2] pending approvals from oversight entities like the Philippine Competition...