The Nympsfield wind turbine, subject to a fierce five-year planning battle between local residents and planners and the Stroud-based renewable energy company Ecotricity, was sweet 16 on December 13th 2013.
I am a Trustee of the farm that the Turbine is located on. My Uncle owned the farm when the Turbine was built and a Trust was set up after he died to continue our family's interest in the farm and Turbine. I am very interested in all kinds of renewable energy, and so it is important to me to be a stakeholders in the Nympsfield Wind Tutbine.
Commissioned on Friday, December 13, 1996, the 60-metre Lynch Knoll turbine has, according to Ecotricity, generated over 15 million units (kWh) of electricity – enough to power 227 local homes every year and prevented almost 6,500 tonnes of CO₂from entering the atmosphere.
Lynch Knoll was one of the Britain’s earliest wind turbines and until only recently was the only one in Gloucestershire, before it was joined by a new companion at St Briavels near the Forest of Dean.
