Wind farm, Scotland.
The 322 megawatt (MW) Whitelee Wind Farm was completed ahead of schedule in May 2009 and is Europe's largest onshore wind farm. Built by Scottish Power, part of the Spanish power company Iberdrola using 140 Siemens wind turbines, each with a rated capacity of MW. Positioned 370 metres (1200 feet) above sea level, 15 kilometres (9 miles) outside Glasgow, Scotland's largest city, the wind farm has over half a million people living within a 30-km radius, making it one of the first large-scale wind farms constructed close to a large population centre. The first phase of the wind farm started feeding power into the national electricity grid in January 2008. The wind farm has authorisation for a further 36 turbines, which would increase capacity to 452 MW and in the future extended to 600 MW. The Scottish government has a target of generating 31% of Scotland's electricity from renewable energy by 2011 and 50% by 2020. The majority of this is likely to come from wind power.
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Location: Eaglesham Moor, East Renfrewshire, Scotland.
Photo credit: © Clynt Garnham Renewable Energy / Alamy / Afripics
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