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 90,000kWh to end of April 2024.
The generator being lifted out on Thursday 22nd August. Following the overspeed incident it was found that it's cable connections had overheated and needs to be properly dismantled and inspected. This is unrelated to the overspeed, the cause of which has now been identified as a jammed pitch linkage.
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.
Website privacy policy
Our website does not capture or store personal information. Tools, such as calculators, do not store the information you enter. We may track the number of visitors to the website, but this tracking will not personally identify you.
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 once the turbine is working again.
AGM date change
We're likely to move our AGM to a weekday evening in October. More details to follow.
Wind turbine monthly output
April 2024: 47,937.8kWh
May: 16,000kWh
June: 0 (due to overspeed fault on 30th May)
July: 0
August: 0
PV monthly output
April 2024: 892kWh
May: 1,324.6kWh
June: 1,410kWh
July: 1,265kWh
