Another wind turbine planned for Slough

lock your doors, an application is in for another baby-eating wind-turbine in Slough!

Well, almost - there's an application on the Slough Council planning website

INSTALLATION OF A 40M GUYED WIND MONITORING MAST WHICH WILL BE REQUIRED TO MONITOR SITE CONDITIONS FOR A PERIOD OF 3-12 MONTHS 

The average wind-speed at this site, just north of Wexham Hospital, is about 6.4 m/s, which on a 3MW turbine means about 5GWh p/year. I don't know who is putting this application in, but at least they seem to be more serious and prepared than the last lot in Cippenham

Speaking with some of the councillors on the planning committee since the fiasco of the last hearing, there still isn't a policy on renewable energy in Slough, but they suggested that I raise this with the Scrutiny committee

maybe

Slough's energy use ...

Slough has approximately 45,000 households.

Each household uses approximately 4239 kWh each year in electricity (reference to come).

This means that Slough uses about 191,000,000kWh each year (or 191,000MWh, or 191GWh)

A 3MW wind turbine in Slough will produce about 3972MWh a year, or 4GWh. This is approximately 2% of the current electricity requirement for the town.

A household solar panel in the Thames Valley will produce about 2MWh each year, requiring approimately 2,000 such installations to produce the same amount of electricity as 1 3MW wind turbine, or 95,500 to meet the total requirement - over double the actual number of households.

That's the plain facts of electricity use in Slough.