Stop Turbines In North Cornwall

Cold Northcott Windfarm

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Cold Northcott Windfarm

This development was built by National Wind Power in April 1993 with 21 turbines with a combined power capacity of 6.3MW and is operated by Cumbria Windfarms.

December 1993

At Cold Northcott (Cornwall) wind ‘farm’, in December 1993, the complete blade and rotor of a wind turbine broke away from its stem and fell to the ground.

This wind ‘farm’ had been officially opened by Tim Eggar (Minister for Energy and Industry) only one month previously.

The blades on all the machines at Cold Northcott lost their coatings in the first year of operation and had to be replaced. They were sent up to Wales for this purpose.

(Angela Kelly, Country Guardian)

January 2006

"Big chunk of turbine blade shears off

Part of a wind turbine blade weighing more than half a ton snapped off and crashed into a field during high winds. A chunk of the 18 metre (59 feet) long blade sheared off at the Cold Northcott windfarm on Bodmin Moor at about 9am yesterday."

(Western Morning News)