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.
V27 on 1 February, STILL waiting for new torque brackets etc to be manufactured and fitted.
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 43,619kWh to end of March 2019.
External Links
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Go to Carbon Intensity to see the current and forecast carbon dioxide emissions associated with using using electricty.
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News
The wind turbine is stopped while awaiting repairs to the hydraulic system and gearbox mountings. When WindCare came to sort out the hydraulics problem they found the brackets and arms that stop the gearbox from rotating had become damaged after a bush had failed. The delays have been caused by the parts suppliers being out of stock, so some have had to be specially made. We hope WindCare will be back later this week (16th - 20th Feb) to complete the repairs.
Meanswhile we've missed the windiest winter on record. Storm Ciara gave us winds of 32.8m/s (73.4mph) on Feb 9th, an unnamed storm 33.6m/s (75.2mph) on Feb 13th. We are not looking forward to storm Dennis...
Wind turbine monthly output
April 2019: 27,724.3kWh
May: 16,705.1kWh
June: 27,101.6kWh
July: 14,070.1kWh
August: 27,684.1kWh
September: 34,668.8kWh
October: 35,857.4kWh
November: 28,828.9kWh
December: 0kWh
January 2020: 0kWh
PV monthly output
April 2019: 1,045.6kWh
May: 1,367.6kWh
June: 1,366.6kWh
July: 1,442.1kWh
August: 1,105.0kWh
September: 882.4kWh
October: 473.6kWh
November: 274.0kWh
December: 202.19kWh
January 2020: 215.43kWh