Stop Turbines In North Cornwall

How many average houses would the repowered site provide for?

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Comments: Sourced from the DTI and Delabole Windfarm websites

How many average houses would the repowered site provide for?

The Delabole Windfarm leaflet titled "current" appears to be misleading. The DTI figures suggest that the claimed capacity is overstated by around 25%.

This is significant partly because it demonstrates a fundamental problem with energy provision: we must reduce our consumption before we can make any meaningful contribution using new power sources. The error between the two consumption figures (approx 25%) is several times larger than the approximately 10% target for renewable energy. We can't have an open and honest debate and take the appropriate action unless we have proper data to work with.

The Delabole Windfarm site states:

"The existing site has ten 400kW wind turbines. These turbines have been generating 10,000 MWh per year over the last 10 years. This is sufficient to supply the equivalent domestic energy needs for 3000 homes annually - based on an annual domestic electricity consumption figures of 3300 kWh per household (UK Energy Digest 2005)." http://www.monkton-generation.co.uk/uploads/current.pdf

However, figures from the DTI state that the average household consumption is 4600 kWh per year making the actual number of homes supplied as 2237. See: http://www.berr.gov.uk/files/file20328.pdf.