Site Notes
The proposed site is on land to the South of Tivetshall St.Mary and will comprise of six turbines, each with a maximum output of 2MW. The proposed site location and layout is shown below. Exact turbine positioning will be confirmed after all sections of the Environmental Impact Assessment have been considered.
Site Location Map
Proposed Site Layout
Each turbine will be a maximum of 85m high to the hub and the rotors will be a maximum diameter of 90m. The diameter of the tower at the base will be approximately 4m. The turbines have to be sited a set distance from each other as recommended by the manufacturer to enable each turbine to generate the maximum amount of electricity.
The final arrangement for the foundations will be confirmed once the turbine manufacture is determined. The land around the turbine will be flat as the foundation will be buried. Once construction is complete, the land can continue to be farmed right up to the turbine tower.Electricity generated will be fed into the national grid via underground cables. Vehicle access routes will be provided between the turbines for construction and maintenance; these will follow current tracks and field boundaries where possible.
Energy production
The planning application will describe the turbines in a generic form. The reason for this is that the technology is constantly moving forward and at the time of placing the contract for the turbines Enertrag UK will want to take advantage of the turbine that best suits the site.
A typical wind turbine unit will provide around 4.7 million units of electricity per year. This is enough to:
- Provide electricity for around 1,000 homes per year
- Boil enough water for 170 million cups of tea
- Run a computer for 1,620 years
- Save 4,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide being emitted into the atmosphere, equivalent to taking 1,333 cars of the road.
(Source: http://www.bwea.com/edu/calcs.html)
Planning Process
Enertrag UK are required to produce an Environmental Statement (ES). The process of producing this is known as an Environmental Impact Assessment and will cover the effects and impacts of the development including ornithology, ecology, archaeology, noise, geology, and landscape. Enertrag UK will work very closely with experts in these fields in order to produce the ES. Once the ES is complete, Enertrag UK will submit a planning application to the local authority.
As part of the planning process, Enertrag UK will provide opportunity for the public to demonstrate their views and get involved with the public consultation. A consultation document will be available during this time. If you have any comments or queries please use the comments form available on this website.
Enertrag UK will also hold public consultation sessions in the area to give members of the community a chance to meet the team and have their questions answered. Dates of these sessions will be published in due course.
A copy of the scoping request can be accessed from ‘downloads’ at the top of this page.
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