Green Park Wind Turbine
The most visible feature of Green Park is an Enercon E-70 wind turbine, adjacent to the M4 motorway, and billed as the UK's most visible turbine. The blades are 33 m (108 ft) long, with a tower height of 85 m (279 ft). At a wind speed of 14 ms-1 (31 mph) the machine generates 2.05 MW of electricity (less for lower wind speeds), which is enough to power around 1,500 homes. It is owned and operated by Ecotricity and was completed in November 2005. Between 2005 and 2010, it worked at 17% of its capacity, and it received £600,000 in public subsidies. In 2010, the subsidies received were thought to be worth more than the total amount of electricity that the turbine generated.
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