Cotton Farm Site Statistics
Number of wind turbines
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8
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Installed capacity of project
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Between 16 and 24 Megawatts
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Number of average homes supplied
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Between 6,900 and 10,000
homes each year1 |
Height of turbines
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Up to 127 metres to the tip (highest point) |
1) Based on an annual electricity consumption per home of 4700 kWh, which is derived from a total UK domestic electricity consumption of 117.589 terawatt-hours (TWh) and 25.2 million UK households giving 4,666 kWh per year per household.
UK energy consumption is as stated for 2004 in The Digest of UK Energy Statistics 2005 The number of UK households is as stated for 2003 in the Mid-year Household Estimates published in 2004 by the Office for National Statistics.
The energy predicted to be generated by the proposal is derived from monitoring wind speeds in the area and correlating this data to wind speeds measured at Met. Office stations. This enables a calculation to be made to estimate the average annual energy production for the site based on 8 turbines each of rated capacity of between 2 and 3MW.
The energy capture and equivalent homes figure relating to this project may change as more information is gathered.
