wind farms in wales
An average of 2,000 jobs a year could be created until 2050 and £2.3bn injected into the Welsh economy by onshore wind farms, it is claimed. That is the forecast from the first report looking at the economic impact of wind energy in Wales. The research by Regeneris Consulting and Cardiff Business School is based on how much of the money spent until now on wind farms has stayed in Wales. But it warns delays to approving and building wind farms will hamper this. Economics correspondent Sarah Dickins reports. In Mid Wales today, the combined number of operational, consented and proposed commercial wind turbines has reached a total in excess of 840. That's equivalent to more than one turbine to every square mile of Montgomeryshire. 540 of the new wind turbines proposed for Mid Wales range in height from 361 feet (110m), the height of Battersea power station, to 606 feet (189m); just 14 feet shorter than Post Office Tower, London or 7.5 times the height of Machynlleth clock tower. In the western half of Mid Wales you are never more than 10 miles from a proposed wind farm site, in the east, 20 miles. However, with major alterations to the region's transport and infrastructure, including the installation of a 20 acre national grid hub and network of large scale pylons necessary to service the turbines, no resident, business or visitor in Mid Wales will remain unaffected, regardless of which side of the debate they stand. The wind power industry is presenting councillors, Welsh assembly and parliament members with the biggest planning decisions ever set to change the face of Mid Wales. In this website we have gathered information from all Mid Wales' current wind farm planning applications to make it easy for you to access and have your say in this important decision. This is related to : Wind, Turbines, Electricity, Wales, Pembrokeshire, Engineering, Renewable Energy, power
