The 126-metre turbine, installed at the rear of the company’s 18-acre site, is set to reduce the company’s carbon emissions by 2,992 tonnes a year, and sees the culmination of work that has been carried out alongside Wind Direct over the past two years.
It will undergo a 40-day test period, during which the blades will stop and start before it’s fully commissioned in October 2010.
Operations director Nick Kenyon said: “We have been working on this project for quite some time, so it’s really exciting to see it finally come to fruition. When the turbine is fully operational, it will meet all of our energy needs for the dairy. It will not only be cleaner and greener, but will also allow us to stabilise energy supply, which is vital in protecting our business for the future.”
Dewlay’s initiative has been applauded by Dairy UK as a welcoming project in the industry’s continuous efforts to meet ambitious green targets by 2015: “Initiatives like this are a great example of ways in which the dairy sector can keep improving its environmental performance,” said Fergus McReynolds, environment manager for Dairy UK. “The dairy industry is making milk greener.”
Source: Dewlay
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