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Renewable Energy: Mobile wind turbine

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    • CommentAuthorworkaholic
    • CommentTimeNov 27th 2007
     
    Has anybody else tried building a turbine tower like this: http://www.futurenergy.co.uk/casehistories/ElanValleyMutton.pdf

    As it is not fixed to the ground will it avoid requiring planning permission?
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      CommentAuthorted
    • CommentTimeNov 28th 2007
     
    A turbine that small would be covered by 'permitted development' in most cases anyway.
    • CommentAuthorworkaholic
    • CommentTimeNov 28th 2007
     
    I did not realise that permitted development covered turbines not attached to the house. Do you happen to know if there is a mast height or turbine blade size limit?
    • CommentAuthorTuna
    • CommentTimeNov 28th 2007
     
    Sounds like a really good project being used where it helps the most. It's a pity they don't have any figures for the power they've generated. The press release talks about a 90% reduction in diesel usage, but implies that at least some of this is due to moving their cooking and heating to solid fuel, and a certain proportion of the rest is due to the large solar panel array. The press release also gives firm figures on the solar panels, but only says that the turbine 'should produce...', so it's not yet given any concrete results.

    The Farm has a website (here: http://www.elanvalleymutton.co.uk/ ), and also implies that in the winter the solar array 'dips', suggesting that the wind turbine is perhaps only acting as a top up? They've certainly put some decent effort into reducing their overall energy usage first, before trying to generate anything.
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      CommentAuthorted
    • CommentTimeNov 28th 2007
     
    A free standing turbine of 11m total height should be covered by permitted development (outside conservation areas and National Parks, etc).

    It's a pity these people used £4500 of taxpayers money to put in the PV when it looks like their forthcoming water turbine would produce just about all the power they need.

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