Cefn Croes: the most powerful on-shore wind farm
in Wales
Vital Statistics
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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