Who: South Wheatley Environment Trust

Where:North  Cornwall

What:Wind Turbine

Size: 15kW

Makes: 45 MWh per year

Customer equivalent: 11 homes per year

Average equivalent saving: 19 tonnes of CO2 per year

THE SOUTH WHEATLEY STORY

Last autumn, the South Wheatley Environmental Trust, based near Launceston, completed their 15kW wind turbine project ready to make the most of the Cornish winter winds. Although a small community, South Wheatley was keen to become part of the solution to climate change and Bill Andrews was glad to lead the project as chairman of the Trust:

Bill said, “We all felt that there was too much talking about Climate Change and not enough action so we decided to do something about it and set our sights on installing a wind turbine. Putting all the funding together and applying for planning permission was a labour of love but now the turbine is in and we’ve started generating green electricity that we are getting paid for, it feels well worth the effort.”