Bristol Airport wind turbine plan
01.08.08
Bristol Airport is finalising plans for a wind turbine as part of the hubs plans to improve energy efficiency and cut its emissions. The airport wants to site a 20-metre (65-foot) turbine, lower than the airfield's light columns, between the old and new terminals. Feasibility studies on the turbine are under way as part of the airport's move to improve its green credentials as it prepares to massively expand its operations.
The turbine proposed would create about 1.5-million kilowatt hours of clean energy each year for the airport – about 10 percent of its total power usage. When the studies are complete, the airport will consult North Somerset Council to move the plans forward.
An airport spokesman said: ‘We understand the turbine may not need a planning application, but we are seeking clarification at the moment and hope to install the turbine before the end of the year. If the current plans are given the go ahead more turbines of the same size could be built.'
The airport is also keen to work with local companies on ways to enable cooking oil to be recycled into fuel for its ground operations vehicles. Restaurants and cafes at Bristol currently produce around 270 litres of waste cooking oil every week. A bio-mass boiler, which would burn waste from local timber merchants to heat the terminal, is also under consideration.
The plans come as the airport prepares its £80m expansion plans. In November, it will submit a detailed planning application to North Somerset Council in a bid to increase passenger numbers from six million a year at present to nine million a year by 2015. Flights to and from the hub make up 0.4 percent of the West's carbon emissions, and could rise to 0.7 percent by 2015 if the proposed expansion goes ahead.
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