Alveston, South Gloucestershire
Building a first for the county
We've started building South Gloucestershires's first wind park! Three elegant turbines could be up and running at early as Winter 2009 - almost twelve years after neighbouring Gloucestershire's first windmill.
And it's a great site - near the junction of the M4 and M5 motorways.
This is a vital step towards energy independence - securing our future energy needs, from our own local source - the wind.
Once up and running Alveston Wind Park will provide enough clean power each year for over 5,000 thousand local homes - that¹s 5% of the homes in the district from just three turbines.
Vital statistics
Site address - Off Old Gloucester Road, Earthcott Green, South Gloucestershire
Building Since - 13 Nov 2008
Turbines - 3
Rotor diameter - 70m
Capacity - 6.9MW
Green electricity per year -
16.75 million units
Equivalent homes - 5,077
CO2 savings - 6,100 tonnes
13 November 2008
Hot off the press - we've just been granted permission for our Alveston Wind Park.
We're chuffed to bits. This is a great site for wind turbines. We'd like to thank those councilors that made this possible and all the local people who expressed their support.
