cold blow wind turbine clyro community council - 7pm, 27 th november 2013
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free wind ltd• Medium, commercial-scale wind turbines• Significant experience of renewable & wind energy • Stakeholders - land owners, communities, LPA’s• Deliver well considered and appropriate projects• Abundant free energy source across the UK• Benefits for all
A clean and secure supply for a sustainable future
Project Selection• Sites – landowner enquiry or map search?• Wind speed• Constraints - neighbours• Designations• Visuals• All the ‘ologys• Aviation & RADAR• Access and Transport• Communication links
Viable Rate – 1 in 10
Cold Blow Project
• Selected & started early 2013• Site potential, 500kW• Screened 87m tip ht, applied 84m• 12 possible locations, down to 2• Drop in Session 21st Aug 2013• Consultation; select final location• Non – EIA application• Application submitted 21st Oct• Validated 29th Oct
Environmental Report
• Planning and Policy Statement
• Design and Access Statement
• Landscape and Visual Impact Assessment (LVIA)
• Cultural Heritage Assessment
• Ecology Appraisal
• Aviation Assessment
• Noise and Shadow Flicker Assessment
• Transport and Access Report
• Communication infrastructure Consultation
• Television impact Report
Projects that satisfy Planning Policies should succeed
Current Policy• International, European, National and Local Policy
• Reducing CO2; RE sources; A range of RE targets
• TAN8 Target pa - by 2010 - 4 TWh & by 2020 - 7 TWh - 2010 target not yet reached
• Planning Policy Wales (Ed 5) – Para 12.8.9 confirms that local planning authorities should facilitate the development of all forms of renewable and low carbon energy to move towards a low carbon economy to help tackle the causes of climate change
• Powys UDP – March 2010 – many relevant policies, but one of the key ones is E3 - Wind Power, which will be supported so long as the projects satisfy a long list of criteria, which we believe we have done in this application
• UK Climate Change Act 2008 - reduce GG emissions by 34% by 2020 & 80% by 2050
The Project has been presented to comply with all relevant policies
Subsidies – DECC & ODI• £112 of the average £1287 family dual fuel bill = Green policy
• £37 = renewable subsidy (£30 ROCs and £7 FiT) < 3% of average bill.
• £47 = ECO and energy saving measures tackling fuel poverty.
• £24 = pensioners discount & other measures.
• UK is 5th subsidiser of f-fs – independent think tank, 7th Nov 2013.
• £280m were given to oil and gas producers through tax breaks.
• Several billion pounds of reductions on VAT on f-fs – 2011
SUBSIDIES – a level playing field ???