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A few facts
from the Web Site of the Campaign Group who opposed the building of
the Wind Farm
39 turbines, each 1.5 megawatt
"installed capacity"
58.5 megawatt - total installed
capacity
50 megawatt - installed capacity
necessary to circumvent local planning procedures
17 megawatt - average output (very
optimistic - assumes generous 30% load factor)
53,000 megawatt - peak UK
electricity demand
165,000 tonnes - operator-claimed
annual CO2
emission savings due to Cefn Croes
115,000 tonnes - more realistic
(but still very optimistic) annual CO2
emission savings
520,000 tonnes - annual CO2
emissions from a typical jumbo jet
560,000,000 tonnes - total annual
UK CO2
emissions (and rising)
327' (100m) - overall height of
most of the turbines
316' (96m) - height of Houses of
Parliament clock tower ("Big Ben")
7.5 sq. km - area of site,
stretched out over 5km N-S and 5km E-W
300 - abnormal articulated lorry
loads delivering turbine components (conservative estimate)
137' (42m) - length of the 59
lorries carrying turbine blades (1½ miles of nose-to-tail lorries)
30,000 - tonnes of concrete used
during construction
10,000 - tonnes of carbon dioxide
emitted during manufacture of the concrete
4 - minimum number of violations
of planning conditions during construction
£16,000,000 - estimated annual
income for Falck Renewables from Cefn Croes
£58,500 - annual handout (with
strict conditions) to local communities via "Trust Fund"
£10,000 - annual handout to
Environmental Management Committee for "ecological enhancement" of the
site
4 - number of permanent full-time
jobs created or "safeguarded" by Cefn Croes (operator estimate)
9 miles (14km) - length of
grid-connect power line, carried on 100 pylons (mostly two-pole)
5 - years from planning
application to opening
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