Project Overview

The wind turbines proposed for this development would be:

Scale drawing of proposed pylon and wind turbine

• 3.6 MW generation capacity
• horizontal axis, upwind
• 3 glass fibre and/or carbon fibre reinforced blades
• maximum 140 m (460 ft) tip height
• typical 107 m (351 ft) diameter rotor
• typical 86.5 m (284 ft) high, conical steel tower
• off-white in colour

Each wind turbine would require a buried, reinforced-concrete foundation typically 22 m x 22 m, 2 m (6 ft) thick (72 ft x 72 ft, 3 - 6 ft thick), with a 2 m (6 ft) high column in the middle for the tower. Each foundation would have an adjacent prepared area, the hardstanding, for the installation cranes to use. The wind turbines would be arranged in 9 groups.