Ecotricity History - 2001
Sainsbury’s joined the Green Energy revolution way (way) before any other supermarket – we built them their very own on-site turbine at their distribution depot in East Kilbride, Scotland. This was the UK’s very first fully commercial windmill because we sold the power to them without a premium and we built the windmill without a subsidy.
This was the first of our Merchant Wind Power projects, an innovative model that brings wind energy direct to big users, in a logical extension of our Embedded Supply model - now widely replicated – not least by us. Find out more about Merchant Wind Power.
| Total windmills installed: | 3 |
| MW Installed (this year): | 0 |
| Total capacity to date: | 3 |
| Homes powered (equiv): | 1,637 |
| Tonnes of CO2 saved p.a.: | 2,654 |
| Homes Supplied Year end: | 1 |