• Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Practical Environmentalist

Useful environmentally friendly news and advice.

Hide Search

Queen of England plans array of offshore wind turbines, including biggest turbine ever built

Lars7369952O · October 17, 2008 ·

Her Majesty -FLA
Photo courtesy of ceebee23 at Flickr.com.

The Queen of England once enjoyed direct rule over 2/3 of the earth’s surface. Her personal authority is a bit less these days, but she still has control over the territorial waters of Great Britain. And, with the backing of the Crown Estate, Queen Elizabeth II can afford to do some really impressive things in her domain. Like building an array of offshore windmills, including the biggest individual windmill in the world.

Her Majesty’s windmill will produce 7.5 megawatts, which is more than twice as much as the previous record holder (GE’s 3.6 MW Offshore Turbine). The company that’s producing the turbine is Clipper Windpower, based in California. They have a proven history building monster wind turbines – including the largest turbine built in the US: the 2.5 MW Liberty Turbine. Details are still being worked out about where the giant wind turbine will be produced, and how it will be shipped to England.

The average British person uses 10-15 kilowatts per day (half of the average American energy consumption), which means that on a windy day this monster turbine will meet the needs of roughly 500-750 people. And the British Crown plans to build multiple turbines, all far out to sea. Many will be invisible to people on land, but the biggest windmill in the world will be nearly 600 feet tall and should be visible for about 18-19 miles.

Windmill array -FL
Photo courtesy of yakkerDK at Flickr.com.

Related

Filed Under: Air Quality, Alternative Energy, Global Warming, Government Programs That Work!, Humor, People Making a Difference, Travel Tagged With: British, electricity, royal, turbine, United Kingdom, wind

Reader Interactions

Comments

  1. yakkerDK says

    October 26, 2008 at 5:19 am

    Hi,

    Nice to see that you can use one of my pictures on your website.

    🙂 yakkerDK

Primary Sidebar

Search

Pages

  • About
  • 21 Practical Ways to Help the Environment
  • Environmental Resources

Recent Posts

  • Zero Waste in Real Life: Including Zero Waste Pioneers You Won’t Believe
  • 5 Household Wastes You Should Be Recycling in the Garden
  • 101 Sustainable Gardening Tips: Useful Tips to Start Today
  • 2014 Electric Cars in the USA: Here’s the new lineup
  • 2014 Hybrid Cars in the USA: See the new lineup

Categories

  • Air Quality
  • Alternative Energy
  • Anti-Conservation
  • Automobiles
  • Books
  • Conservation / Efficiency
  • Eco Clothes
  • Eco Events
  • Eco Gadgets
  • Eco Gifts
  • Energy Efficiency
  • Environmentally Friendly Companies
  • Food
  • For the Home
  • Gardening
  • Global Warming
  • Government Programs That Work!
  • Green Building
  • Humor
  • In The News
  • Land Conservation
  • Magazines
  • Organizations We Like
  • People Making a Difference
  • Product Reviews
  • Recycling
  • Travel
  • Uncategorized
  • Video
  • Water Conservation

Copyright © 2019 · Daily Dish Pro on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in