Burton Wold Wind Farm is a

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located near Burton Latimer in the

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county of

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, UK. The farm was developed by Your Energy Ltd, is owned by Mistral Windfarms and operated by Engineering Renewables Ltd.

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is buying the electricity output of the project under a long-term power purchase agreement. The farm is spread over three

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s. It has an installed capacity of 20 MW and generate on average around 40,000,000 units (kilowatt hours) of electricity annually. Burton Wold was the first wind farm to be erected in Northamptonshire. Construction work on the site began in December 2005, and the wind farm became operational in May 2006. The wind farm received a mention in the 2008

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and was shortlisted in the MKSM Excellence Awards in 2009.

Output

Burton Wold Wind Farm comprises 10 turbines with a total nameplate capacity of 20 megawatts. These 10 turbines have the ability to produce electricity for an average of 10,000 homes each year, the equivalent of 25% of all the homes in the borough of

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. The E70-E4 turbines were supplied by

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, who are one of the leading manufacturers of wind turbines in the world. Each turbine is 64 meters tall to the hub, the rotor blades have a diameter of 71 meters which gives the turbines an overall height from the ground to the vertical tip of a blade of 99.5 meters. Figures on the Ofgem website show that in 2008 (a leap year) the wind farm produced 43,416

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s of electricity, equivalent to the average needs of 9,237 domestic households. This corresponds to a capacity factor of:

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Funding

The wind farm will contribute £280,000 to a community fund during its 25-year life, which is directed towards energy efficiency and education projects within Burton Latimer. The fund is administered by the

Kettering Borough Council Kettering is a market and industrial town in North Northamptonshire, England. It is located north of London and north-east of Northampton, west of the River Ise, a tributary of the River Nene. The name means "the place (or territory) of Ket ...

. The fund has paid for solar hot water heaters at a local sheltered housing development, sun pipes at a local school, and contributed £10,000 towards energy efficient renovations of the Guide Hall. The fund is cited as a case study in two reports produced by the Renewables Advisory Board In 2008 Kettering Borough Council approved an application for a further seven turbines, submitted by Burton Wold Wind Farm Extension Limited, a Company owned by the Beaty Family.

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BBC Politics Show 1 November 2009
{{Electricity generation in the East Midlands Buildings and structures in Northamptonshire Wind farms in England

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