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The First Commercial Windfarm in the United Kingdom

In 1980 the combination of Cornish opposition to a proposed Nuclear Power Staion and a windswept farm, prompted the Edwards family to take a positive view and look into the potential of harnessing the wind to produce power.
The windfarm is sited 1.6 km (1 mile) from the village of Delabole. 4 km ( 2.5 miles) from the sea, at an altitude of 240m (800 ft ).

The windfarm first became operational in mid December 1991. Construction took just 3months total, but erection and commissioning of the turbines took only 15 days!
The turbines are carefully positioned in existing hedgelines about 270 m apart. There are no access roads and all cables are underground so that normal agricultural use is undisturbed.

The 10 turbines have an annual output of about 12 million Kw hours, which equals 1 years consumption by 2700 average homes (a small town).
To produce the same amount of electricity by convential means, about 2000 tonnes of oil or 5000 tonnes of coal would have to be burnt each year, producing 12000 tonnes of carbon dioxide and 120 tonnes of sulpher and nitrous oxides.

Photograph by David Flower	Photograph by Mark Nelson

Photographs by Martin Keat

Good Energy Generation
'Repowering' Planned for the UK's first Wind Farm

Last summer we held the first phase of our public consultation on the re-powering of Delabole Wind Farm. Here we shared our plans to take down the existing wind turbines at Delabole and install a reduced number of larger, more powerful turbines. We asked people who attended the consultation to give us their views of the re-powering project.  We achieved this by displaying an opinions board which gave people the opportunity to state how they would like Delabole Wind Farm to look in the future.

We have taken these views onboard and with the technical research and the environmental impact assessment that has been carried out, we have now finalised the material that will be included in our planning application. We will present this application to the North Cornwall District Council planning department.

You can view the plans at www.goodenergygeneration.co.uk 

Yours sincerely
Hugo House
Communications Manager
Good Energy

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Delabole Wind Fair

Saturday 5th July
11am - 6pm
Delabole Windfarm
Delabole
Cornwall

FREE ENTRY

Come to the low carbon lifestyle fair - celebrate, learn, discuss and inspire. Take turbine tours, join discussion forums, learn how to generate electricity at home, sample local organic food and drink, and enjoy yoga workshops - lots of entertainment for all the family.

www.good-energy.co.uk
0845 456 1640