Blood Hill is a wind farm near
Hemsby in
Norfolk,
England. It is the smallest windfarm owned by
E.ON; taking up 3 hectares. It has a
nameplate capacity of 2.25
MW which is enough to power 1000 homes at peak. There were 10
Vestas V27-225 kW
turbines which were 30 metres tall and stand on top of Blood Hill. They are visible from the villages of Hemsby and
Winterton-on-Sea
Winterton-on-Sea is a village and civil parish on the North Sea coast of the English county of Norfolk. It is north of Great Yarmouth and east of Norwich.Ordnance Survey (2002). ''OS Explorer Map 252 - Norfolk Coast East''. .
The civil parish h ...
. Blood Hill began operating in December 1992 and was one of the first windfarms in the United Kingdom.
In 2000 a much larger 65m 1.5MW
Ecotricity turbine was built adjacent to the site.
In 2015 a repowering of the site saw the original 10 turbines replaced with 2 two Turbowind T400 wind turbines.
See also
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Wind power in the United Kingdom
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Sheringham Shoal Offshore Wind Farm
Sheringham Shoal Offshore Wind Farm is a Round 2 wind farm in North Sea off the coast of Norfolk. A lease for use of the sea bed was obtained in 2004 by Scira Offshore Energy (later acquired by Statoil (now Equinor) and Statkraft), the developmen ...
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Scroby Sands wind farm
References
Wind farms in England
Buildings and structures in Norfolk
E.ON
Power stations in the East of England
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