East Midlands Airport step up turbines plan
12.01.10
East Midlands Airport hopes to have four giant wind turbines built on the site by the end of this year, the Mercury reports. Planning permission was granted for the 45m high electricity generating structures nearly two years ago but construction has yet to start, leading some to question whether they would ever be built.
An airport spokeswoman told the newspaper that there were internal planning measures that needed to be completed before the building phase of the project could begin. She said: ‘We are pressing ahead with the turbine plan. We do not have an actual date set for it but we hope it will be before the end of the year.’
When they are built, the turbines will generate 900 kilowat - about 10% of the airport's energy needs or equal to the amount needed to power 500 houses. They are part of a wider plan to make the airport's ground operations carbon neutral.
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