Draft Plans for the Public Consultation

The candidate wind turbine is an EWT at 84 metres to hub height and 61 metres rotor (totalling 114.5 metres to tip). This is a well known manufacturer with a good reputation for reliability and performance and a number of EWT turbines can be identified in the vicinity of the site, in particular at Lower Tregeen, Otterham and Piper’s Pool. These wind turbines have sophisticated operational capabilities, including feathering the blades to mitigate noise or shadow flicker to ensure compliance with strict amenity protections at all times.

Each turbine is rated at 1 MW totalling 22 MW total capacity for the proposed repowering. Although this is a headline figure of around 4 times the potential output of the approved windfarm in terms of peak generation, the real benefit is in terms of yield. The candidate turbines operate well and reliably in a much wider range of wind speeds and the proposed repowering is conservatively modelled to produce a total of over 66,000 MWh (approximately 22, 758 houses on the typical OFGEN UK home, or 15,348 using the higher OFGEN home), or nearly 5 times more than the existing consented windfarm.