Honda, Swindon
Honda Road To A Greener Future.
Honda is turning on to Wind Power. This is our third within the Car Industry, and hopes to see their UK Car Plant, based in Swindon, Wiltshire, graced by Wind Turbines, with New Green Energy flowing directly into their operation.
We’ve started to carry out extensive assessments of the Swindon site to ensure Wind Turbines are feasible. At the moment it looks like the site might be able to house four turbines.
The energy they generate would be equivalent to the annual usage of over 6,000 homes and could save nearly 9,000 tonnes of CO2 a year, every year, for the lifetime of the project.
If you want to know more about this project, please contact us at honda@ecotricity.co.uk
Vital statistics
Site address - South Marston, Swindon
Planning Since - 11 Dec 2009
Turbines - 4
Hub height - 79m
Rotor diameter - 82m
Capacity - 8MW
Green electricity per year -
20.62 million units
Equivalent homes - 6,248
CO2 savings - 8,866 tonnes
11 December 2009
Ecotricity is investigating the possibility of installing up to four wind turbine at Honda’s Swindon site. Honda will be working in partnership with Ecotricity to manage this initiative. A scoping request has been submitted to Swindon Borough Council who has advised us on the specific details they want covered in all the environmental assessments.
We are now in the process of gathering all this information which will determine the number, location and size of turbines suitable for this site. The project is at an early stage. If the proposal was to progress any further a comprehensive public consultation programme would be undertaken.
