Burton Wold Wind Farm

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country =England
state = Northamptonshire
region = East Midlands
district = Kettering (Borough)
municipality = Burton Latimer
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Burton Wold Wind Farm is a wind farm located near Burton Latimer in the English county of Northamptonshire, UK. The Wind Farm was developed by Your Energy Ltd, is owned by Mistral Windfarms and operated by Your Energy Services Ltd companies all operating under the Mistral Group. E.ON UK is buying the electricity output of the project under a long term power purchase contract.The farm is spread over 3 hectares. It produces 2.25MW of power which is enough to power 1000 homes at peak.

The Project

Burton Wold Wind Farm was the first to be erected in Northamptonshire. Construction work on the site began in December 2005, and the wind farm became operational in May 2006. It comprises 10 turbines with a maximum wind farm output of 20 Megawatts. These 10 turbines have the ability to produce enough energy for 10,000 homes, the equilavant of 25% of all the homes in the borough of Kettering. This is a significant portion of the region’s renewable energy requirements and could reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 40,000 tonnes each year. The E70-E4 turbines were supplied by Enercon Gmbh of Germany, who are one of the leading manufacturers of wind turbines in the world. Each turbine is 64 meters tall to the hub and produces 2 megawatts of power. The rotor blades have a diameter of 71 meters which gives the turbines an overall height from the ground to the vertical tip of a blade of 99.5 meters. During the first year of operation the windfarm generated around 70% of its expected output.

ee also

*Wind power in the United Kingdom

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