Lindhurst Wind Farm

This image shows the turbine blades being lifted into place at Lindhurst Wind Farm near Mansfield in Nottinghamshire.  Lindhurst Wind Farm will start to take shape over the month of August with the five turbines being erected. They hope to be erected at a rate of two a week.

The erection of the turbines follows eight months of preparatory work on site. The work already completed includes upgrading the site entrance and access roads, constructing the turbine foundations and a substation/control building, installation of cables and a connection to the local electricity network.

All turbines are expected to be assembled by early September with the wind farm fully operational by October.

“We are delighted to have started construction,” said RWE npower renewables’ Project Manager Andy Clayton. “Each year Lindhurst Wind Farm will offset the release of thousands of tonnes of carbon dioxide and make a valuable contribution to the fight against climate change.”

By the end of 2010, the five turbine wind farm will have a generating capacity of 9MW.  The annual generation expected at the site is equivalent to the approximate domestic needs of up to 5,400 averageUK households².

Lindhurst Wind Farm was approved by the planning committee atNewarkand Sherwood District Council in September 2007. Councillors voted 8-3 in favour of the application, which had been recommended for approval by the council’s planning officer.

Lindhurst Wind Farm will make an important contribution to achieving Government targets for renewable electricity generation and it will help in the battle against climate change by offsetting the release of the main green house gas, carbon dioxide, which would otherwise be produced by traditional fossil fuel-burning energy generation.

_{² Energy predicted to be generated by the proposal is derived using wind speeds monitored in the local area and applying trends from RWE npower renewables' existing wind farm portfolio located across the UK. This enables a calculation to be made to estimate the average annual energy production based on five turbines each of rated capacity 1.8 MW The energy capture predicted and hence derived homes equivalent or emissions savings figures may change as further information is gathered. Equivalent homes supplied is based on an annual electricity consumption per home of 4700 kWh. This figure is supported by recent domestic electricity consumption data available from The Digest of UK Energy Statistics and household estimates and projections from the UK Statistics Authority.}