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Blood Hill wind farm

Coordinates: 52°42′43″N 1°40′1″E / 52.71194°N 1.66694°E / 52.71194; 1.66694
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Blood Hill wind farm
Blood Hill Wind Turbines
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CountryEngland, United Kingdom
LocationNear Hemsby in Norfolk
Coordinates52°42′43″N 1°40′1″E / 52.71194°N 1.66694°E / 52.71194; 1.66694
StatusOperational
Commission dateDecember 1992
Power generation
Units operational10
Make and modelVestas: V27
Nameplate capacity2.25 MW
External links
Websitehttps://web.archive.org/web/20070402205350/http://www.eon-uk.com/451.aspx
CommonsRelated media on Commons

Blood Hill is a wind farm near Hemsby in Norfolk, England. It is the smallest windfarm owned by E.ON; taking up 3 hectares.[1] It has a nameplate capacity of 2.25MW which is enough to power 1000 homes at peak. There were 10 Vestas V27-225 kW[2] turbines which were 30 metres tall and stand on top of Blood Hill. They are visible from the villages of Hemsby and Winterton-on-Sea. Blood Hill began operating in December 1992 and was one of the first windfarms in the United Kingdom.

In 2000 a much larger 65m 1.5MW Ecotricity turbine was built adjacent to the site.[3]

In 2015 a repowering of the site saw the original 10 turbines replaced with 2 two Turbowind T400 wind turbines.[4]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ E.ON UK - Blood Hill Archived April 2, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ "Blood Hill windfarm, United-Kingdom". Windpower database. Retrieved 4 July 2009.
  3. ^ "Our Wind Parks - Ecotricity". Archived from the original on 3 March 2009. Retrieved 5 August 2010.
  4. ^ "Great Yarmouth Borough Council". planning.great-yarmouth.gov.uk. Retrieved 20 January 2017.