Welcome
Welcome to the society's website. Here you will find information about the Society and its projects.
The Society was established in 2011 by members of Sustainable South Brent to take forward a medium size wind turbine project for the benefit of the community. The Vestas V27 wind turbine, rated at 225kW, was installed in August 2013 and began generating electricity in September 2013.
The Society also owns the 9.88kWp PV array on the South Brent Recreation Association's pavilion building, which was installed in June 2014 and has generated over 98,000kWh to end of November 2024.
Our V27 wind turbine on 8th December, after storm Darragh. The plan now is to remove the rotor, main shaft and gearbox so that they can be examined in detail and repaired where necessary, following the damage caused by the overspeeding runaway at the end of May. Waiting for the winds to drop so this work can begin...
External Links
The following links show the real-time and historic contribution of wind power to the UK electricty grid and associated CO2 emissions. SBCES is not responsible for their content.
Go to Carbon Intensity to see the current and forecast carbon dioxide emissions associated with using electricty.
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News
Following the damage caused to the wind turbine at the end of May we have decided to suspend awarding grants for the time being but we still welcome applications so we're ready if and when the turbine is working again.
We're still waiting for our maintainers to repair the wind turbine. After replacing many components and reinstalling the generator after it was removed for repair, they found that the gearbox had also been damaged and will need to be replaced....
Wind turbine monthly output
April 2024: 47,937.8kWh
May: 16,120.4kWh
June: 0 (due to overspeed fault on 30th May)
July: 0
August: 0
Sept: 359.6kWh
Oct: 791.9kWh
(short period of running in which the gearbox was found to have been damaged)Nov: 0
PV monthly output
April 2024: 892kWh
May: 1,324.6kWh
June: 1,410kWh
July: 1,265kWh
August: 1,072.2kWh
Sept: 769.4kWh
Oct: 470.3kWh
Nov: 207.6kWh
