South Brent Community Energy Society

V27 on 16 November 2015

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.

Generator being lifted out

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.

Notice of 2024 AGM

Our AGM will be on Tuesday 8th October at 7.30pm. Notice of AGM

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: 348kWh

Oct: 785kWh

PV monthly output

April 2024: 892kWh

May: 1,324.6kWh

June: 1,410kWh

July: 1,265kWh

August: 1,072.2kWh

Sept: 769.4kWh

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