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New Turbines For Cornish Windfarm

19/02/2008

One of the UK’s oldest windfarms could be set for an overhaul under new proposals being revealed by ScottishPower Renewables today.

Located just south east of Newquay, Carland Cross windfarm was constructed in 1992, with its 15 turbines capable of generating an installed capacity of 6MW. New proposals could see its contribution to the UK’s renewable energy target more than triple.

The UK Government has set a target of ten percent of electricity supply being produced by renewable energy resources by 2010.

New wind turbine technology could enable the windfarm to produce over 20MW of energy, enough clean green electricity for over 11,000 homes.

A scoping report is currently being distributed to stakeholders giving more detail on the proposal and describing the methodology and benefits of improving the output of the existing windfarm.

Keith Anderson, ScottishPower Renewables said: “Windfarm technology has moved on considerably since Carland Cross became operational 15 years ago and we feel it is time to upgrade the existing windfarm and utilise the existing framework to increase its contribution to the government’s renewables target.”

NOTES TO EDITORS

The integration of Iberdrola and ScottishPower, successfully completed on April 23 2007, has created a new organisation, which is one of the largest electricity groups in Europe with an enterprise value of around €80 billion, a presence in more than 30 countries and 22 million points of supply. The new group is also the world’s number one renewable energy operator with 7,000 MW of installed capacity and a pipeline of more than 40,000 MW.

Media Information: Simon McMillan  0141 566 4875 / 07753 622 257

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