The Anonymous Widower

England’s First Onshore Wind Farm Of A New Generation

This document from the Department of Business, Industry and Industrial Strategy lists all the Contracts for Difference Allocation Round 6 results for the supply of zero-carbon electricity.

There is only one English onshore wind farm listed in the document and it is the 8 MW Alaska Wind Farm in Dorset.

It has its own web site and this is the sub heading.

Alaska is a wind energy project comprising 4 wind turbines that are currently under construction at Masters Quarry in East Stoke, near Wareham, Purbeck. This website aims to update you on progress and provide ways to get in touch with the project team.

This is the introductory paragraph.

Alaska Wind Farm is the first of its kind in the county. Dorset has a limited potential for large-scale onshore wind development due to a variety of environmental and technical constraints, such as landscape designations and grid connection opportunities. Extensive technical assessments undertaken during the planning process have demonstrated that the quarry off Puddletown Road makes an excellent site for a wind farm. At present, all four wind turbines have been installed and the team is working on connecting them to the local electricity network. Grid connection is taking longer than anticipated, but the project team are working with the Distribution Network Operator, SSE Networks, to get the wind farm connected over the summer. Once operational, the amount of green electricity generated is expected to meet the annual demand of up to 5,200 average UK households every year*.

This Google Map shows the site on Puddletown Road.

This second Google Map shows an enlargement of part of the site.

Note that are sixteen segments of wind turbine towers.

This article on the Swanage News is entitled Twenty Year Battle To Build Purbeck Wind Farm Is Finally Over.

It gives full details of the history of the wind farm.

The wind farm and a solar farm, will be surrounded by a new heath.

I particularly like this paragraph.

The new heath is expected to be home to all of Britain’s reptiles, including rare smooth snakes and sand lizards among other animals, as well as threatened butterflies, birds, bats and plants.

Renewable energy doesn’t have to wreck the countryside.I shall be watching how this project develops.

September 3, 2024 - Posted by AnonW | Energy, Environment | Animals, Contracts for Difference Allocation Round 6, Onshore Wind Power, Solar Power, Wind Power