Time-Lapse of Wind Park Construction - Alveston
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- čas přidán 6. 12. 2017
- Watch this amazing time-lapse which shows the building of our new Alveston wind park in South Gloucestershire. The three windmill site will generate nearly 10GWh of electricity, powering more than 3,000 homes and reducing carbon emissions by over 3,000 tonnes.
Ecotricity - Britain’s greenest energy company, has today turned on what might be England’s last onshore wind park, as its founder Dale Vince lamented that the once dynamic onshore wind industry had been “effectively killed off by government policy” which blocks all new developments.
The company’s new three windmill site at Alveston, South Gloucestershire next to the M5 motorway will provide enough electricity to power more than 3,000 homes for the next 30 years, with no pollution. The project, in development for over a decade, received overwhelming support from the district council and local community alike.
Well let's all hope there's a change of Government and policy!!! A BIG thank you Ecotricity for taking positive steps in our local area!!
Amazing work guys, keep it up!
Nice one guys. Ecotricity is my favourite energy company, been customers these past 4 years or so... You're doing a great job of evangelising the nation on the huge benefits of green energy. There is something about these wind turbines too, things of beauty
Majestic - more please!
Fantastic Lets Seen More Wind turbines , And Thanks Ecotricity & Dale Vince For Being Positive
Thank you Dale and the rest of your staff (and customers). You're doing a great job. I'm so glad I'm with a company which ploughs profits into producing more green energy. Yes let's hope the people with the power will begin to follow your example eventually!
Terrific! Keep it up please.
Great stuff, I love the shot of the hot air balloon going past.
Fantastic, small steps, big difference
Superb!
1:25 Aww, it’s first ever spin :)
what a lovely sight...
Keep up the good work!
They are monster turbines. I saw the one at Green Park from the M4 and it was big even though the M4 going past it is high up. There's another one just outside Cardiff at Wentloog and it seemed even bigger.
:-) I helped build that! #billsintomills
Looks great. You are a ray of hope and inspiration in an otherwise gloomy news scene. #EnergyIndependenceRocks
Chris B yes all those fallen birds from wind turbines are a grim scene.
By golly, you're right! Whenever you're near a wind turbine you suddenly find yourself ankle deep in dead birds. Must be some kind of kamikaze pigeons drunkenly flying at slow moving wind turbines. We should demolish them all now ...and trees too - as they're surely just as dangerous. But it is kindof weird that the experts who devote their career/reputation to the protection of birds at the RSPB should endorse 'dangerous' turbines:
www.rspb.org.uk/get-involved/community-and-advice/green-living/green-living-at-home/green-energy/
9/10
Love to see more wind turbines going up. By why do Ecotricity insist on calling them "windmills" in their marketing?
Sounds nicer I guess + a secret bakery attached? Good to see more turbines though :)
Very Impressive. Where are they made?
Stroud
Hardly a wind park try the one off my seafront in Brighton this is massive MASSIVE compared to this video
Hope very much its not your last.
Exactly how many windmills are going up?
Because 1 nuclear powerplant can output as much energy as 437 wind turbines
RojoFern you have to consider the nuclear waste that will take 100s of years to become safe. So it will have to sit in a storage facility with threat of leakage that would severely damage surrounding environment. Not to mention a possible terrorist attack that if well coordinated and in right spot could send nuclear waste into the air again contaminating environment. Wind turbines may kill birds but they don't produce any harmful waste. When the process of fission is figured out then that will be a safer and more energy efficient way to produce electricity.
Nuclear has lost out economically. I love nuclear but it is simply too expensive, too slow to build and costs go on forever. Wind and solar are now the cheapest form of power, and storage systems are emerging to smooth out the bumps that intermittency make.
All those poor birds though they have no idea what will hit them.😢
Does anyone think the pair of jets polluting our skies at 0:39 (and elsewhere throughout the video) are really commercial aircraft? Call them whatever you like, but it is agreed that these aircraft trails block out essential sunlight, contribute to "global warming" and can impair both our physical health (e.g., vitamin D deficiency and Rickets disease) and our mental health (e.g., depression and Seasonal Affective Disorder). As if that's not bad enough, with the added consequence of reduced solar electricity generation, they may also be pushing up our energy bills, too.
James Hodgskiss you just contradicted yourself saying that they speed up global warming by absorbing more light but then you say they block some light to solar panels. One they don't block they reflect a percentage of the sunlight back into space, two the chances of the shadow of those trails blocking a certain amount of sunlight to a solar panel is very slim even if they did the effect would be next to none as it wouldn't be in same spot as long and most the suns ray's would still reach it, and three they are called contrails in other words water that condensed in the engine of the plane that then mixed with the cold air to form ice crystals and what they form is a type of cirrus cloud. Ps I hope you are younger than 14 or I'll be disappointed an adult or someone older than me didn't know this at the time of this post.