I’m currently in the UK visiting my parents who live just outside Penistone. There is a small wind farm on the ridge that can be seen from my parent’s house - Royd Moor Wind Farm.
Wikipedia has the following to say about it:
“The Royd Moor Wind Farm is located at Penistone, South Yorkshire and consists of thirteen 500 kW turbines. The site is located approximately 6 km north west of Penistone, above the A628 trunk road between Sheffield and Manchester. The turbines are set in two parallel, staggered rows of six and seven, on a ridge in hilly fell land lying 320 m above sea level.
These turbines were completed in 1993 and are 35m in height to the hub and have a rotor diameter of 37m. The maximum output is 6.5 MW, equivalent to the annual energy required to power 3300 homes.”
It was a great opportunity to take some photos for my geographyalltheway_photos Flickr account. You can see the set here. I have also added them to the Geography Teachers Resources Flickr Pool.
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