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Today's Photo

Posted by Chris Vernon on April 22, 2007 - 3:17pm in The Oil Drum: Europe
Topic: Alternative energy
Tags: biofuel, united kingdom, wind [list all tags]


Oil seed rape, grown for bio-diesel, surrounds the wind turbines at Baumber Farm near Mablethorpe, Lincolnshire, UK.
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Ignoring the rape, there are 16 turbines on site 10x600kW, 6x800kW with a total capacity of 10.8MW, the hub height is 65m and the rotor diameter 44m for the 600kW and 48m for the 800kW. The site owners, Ecotricity, claim this site will power the equivalent of 9,285 local homes with the following annual statistics:

Generation kWh30.3 million
Carbon dioxide (CO2) savings28,916 tonnes
Sulphur dioxide (SO2) savings396 tonnes
Nitrogen oxide (NOX) savings204 tonnes

Further information on the three phases of this installation including construction photos are available here:

Phase 1
Phase 2
Phase 3

Thanks to my father for the photo, his is one of the 9,285 local homes.

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