Planning application for Boddington Reservoir Wind Turbine Submitted

Published: 15/02/2011

Partnerships for Renewables (PfR) has announced that it submitted a planning application for a single wind turbine on land to the north of Boddington Reservoir on Tuesday 15th February.
The proposed turbine has a capacity of 1.5 megawatts and is expected to generate an amount of electricity equivalent to that used annually by 713 average households*.

Regional Manager for PfR, Jerry Sturman, said that “We have now completed all of the necessary environmental and technical studies of the site to give us confidence that it is an appropriate location for a single turbine development of this kind.

“Since announcing our investigation work in 2009 we have asked for valuable feedback from the local community and have worked hard to incorporate the comments provided into our plans. In addition to local feedback, technical and environmental input from statutory consultees and the results of our studies have seen our original investigations into a potential five turbine scheme reduce in scale to the single turbine development we are now proposing.

“Having submitted a planning application, we have organised two further local public exhibitions to provide details of the proposed turbine and planning application, including photomontages of what it will look like. All of the documents forming part of the application will be available to view at these exhibitions. There will be additional meetings for residents who live near to the proposed vehicle access route so that we can talk with them about our proposals and listen to their views.”

Now that we have submitted our proposals, the complete planning application and all accompanying documents are available to read or download from the project website at 

http://www.pfr.co.uk/boddington/3303/Planning-Application/

Copies will also be available shortly at the Planning Department of Daventry District Council or at Woodford Halse Library. If anyone is unable to attend the exhibition but has queries or comments they can contact us by phone on 0800 731 7395 or email – pfr@communityrelations.co.uk.

Details of the upcoming public exhibitions are:

Monday 28th February (1pm to 6.30pm), Byfield Village Hall
Tuesday 1st March (1pm to 6.30pm), Boddington Village Hall.

*The Digest of UK Energy Statistics (2010) gives 2009 domestic electricity consumption as 122,543 gigawatt-hours (GWh) (http://www.decc.gov.uk/assets/decc/statistics/source/electricity/dukes5_1_2.xls) which, when divided by the number of households in the UK - 26,625,800 (http://www.decc.gov.uk/assets/decc/statistics/publications/ecuk/269-ecuk-domestic-2010.xls  (table 3.3) -  gives an average electricity usage of 4,602 kWh per year per household (122,543,000/26,625,800 = 4,602).

Taking into account the candidate turbine for the site, it is expected that the single proposed 1.5MW turbine could generate 3.285 GWh of renewable electricity per year (based on a capacity factor of 25%). These figures are derived as follows: 1,500 kW (1 x 1.5 MW turbine) x 8,760 hours/year x 0.25 (capacity factor) = 3,285,000 kWh.

 Based on the 4,602kWh household figure from Section 6.4.1, and the predicted electricity generation of 3.285GWh, it is estimated that the yearly output from the wind energy development will be equivalent to the approximate domestic electricity needs of 713 average households in Britain.

In September 2008, the Advertising Standards Authority endorsed a figure of 430 gCO2/kWh, based on the assumption that the energy generated by the wind turbines displaces Combined Cycle Gas Turbines and an average mix generation (430 gCO2/kWh).

On this basis, and on the assumption that the wind turbines annual output is 3.285 GWh, a wind energy development of this scale is expected to displace 1,412 tonnes of CO2 emissions per year being emitted to atmosphere. These figures are derived as follows: 3,285,000 kW (output) x 430 gCO2/kWh / 1,000,000 = 1,412 tonnes CO2

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