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Mablethorpe, Lincolnshire

Lincolnshire’s first windmills

This was also the first wind project we built with more than one machine!

OK, not that many more than one…

Two turbines to be precise, of the smaller variety - at a water treatment works belonging to Anglian Water, who very kindly gave us the site when they lost faith in its viability for wind turbines.

Building windmills where conventional wisdom doubts they can be built is our specialty really. So we jumped at the chance.

And building the first windmills in any part of the UK is always a pleasure. People love to see them, it gets them thinking about things like where their energy comes from and puts green electricity on the local agenda.

These were also the first wind turbines to be built in response to the Governments new Renewables Obligation - launched in 2001.

We were later ‘mugged’ by OFGEM but that’s another story.

Vital statistics

Site address - Sewage Treatment Works, Mile Lane

Running Since - 08 Jul 2002

Turbines - 2

Hub height - 65m

Rotor diameter - 44m

Capacity - 1.2MW

Green electricity per year -
3.3 million units

Equivalent homes - 1,004

CO2 savings - 3,337 tonnes

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