This is what Good Energy's local Delabole blogger Sonia Hawkey has to say about the new turbines going up.
 
So we counted them down, and now we’re counting them right back up! After a few weeks of bare hillside which, even people outside the village noticed, was ‘missing something’, the new turbines started going up. Now, the weather’s been up to its old tricks, but when the rain and fog does lift, I can see that three turbines have now been fully erected, with work soon to begin on the fourth. They’ve certainly got the location right here and things are looking good for the blades to start turning on the four turbines in December.

And hasn’t it been a project and a half! Watching the construction process has been fascinating and seeing the massive blades lying flat on the bed of a lorry has really hit home the sheer magnitude of the repower project. At nearly double the height of their predecessors, the new quartet of turbines are set a little further in from the road and do look sleeker, in spite of their size. However, while they have changed the landscape, locals seem to have taken their towering forms in their stride – ‘They just look a little closer than the last ones did,’ one tells me!

Wind power’s had a bit of a bad time in the press recently and I’d thank ‘local’ campaign groups to not put words in our mouths. The wind farm at Delabole is as much a part of this village as is our slate quarry and, having seen the countryside without turbines for the first time in my life, it’s true that you don’t know what you’ve got til it’s gone. Having turbines back on Deli Farm gives us back the ‘Delabolian’ panorama, taking in Roughtor, Brown Willy and the Atlantic, and best appreciated from the edge of the quarry with the wind in your face before retreating indoors for a steaming cuppa.

I, for one, can’t wait to see the new turbines in action – our own waving giants – and I’m very grateful to Good Energy for giving this local resident the chance to air her views.