14 DAY TRIAL // The village of Duckmanton in Derbyshire, UK, has a brand new neighbor. Thus, it now sits close to a wind farm that was not too long ago erected in this corner of the country.
The wind farm, put together by engineers and greenheads working with Energy Prospects Co-operative and a company dubbed Harworth Estates, has an energy generating capacity of 500kW.
What this means is that it generates enough power to meet the demand of as many as 1,000 homes. Still, this energy is not delivered directly to households, but instead fed into the country's National Grid.
The reason this brand new wind farm in the UK is now making headlines is that, until not very long ago, the site on which the turbines presently rest used to be a coal mine.
Click Green tells us that the farm, spanning over about one acre, was built after the local Arkwright open cast mining operation was shut down and the region went back to being classified as agricultural land.
Now that this wind farm close to the village of Duckmanton is operational, Harworth Estates and the Energy Prospects Co-operative are hard at work building a similar 500kW facility in South Yorkshire.
“These two projects demonstrate our expertise at transforming previously-developed land to support low-carbon energy projects,” Hannah Moxon with Harworth Estates said in a statement.
Furthermore, “These wind turbines are an important part of Harworth’s commitment to the community and the environment.”