BWEA welcomes Energy Saving Trust’s report on domestic small scale wind turbines
The British Wind Energy Association has welcomed the publication of the Energy Saving Trust’s report on the domestic small-scale wind field trial.

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The report on domestic small scale wind turbines in the UK was launched to determine how the technology performs when installed in ordinary people’s homes’. The monitoring programme started in 2007 and specifically covered 57 sites across the UK, with the results indicating that small wind systems could become a major UK renewable energy technology, generating around 3,459GWh.
Alex Murley, BWEA Head of Small Systems, said, ‘This report has once again confirmed the vast potential for deployment of small systems in the UK, even at today’s electricity prices. Like all other renewable technologies, these devices work very well when properly sited and are likely to be deployed by an increasing number of households in the next decade. This is why BWEA has invested considerable efforts to develop industry standards, and raise customer awareness on the benefits of the technology.’
The report looks at the siting and installation of the turbines and suggests that free standing pole mounted turbines installed in the appropriate location with a clean-air wind resource, produced the best result.
‘In 2008 the UK was the world’s biggest exporter of small systems, and is increasingly lauded internationally as the world’s manufacturing leader in the sector. The EST report shows that there are significant opportunities for small systems’ deployment within the UK. There is also scope for agricultural, industrial, public housing and leisure sector deployment. There is a vast number of commercial and domestic users ready to embrace this technology and the work of BWEA on standards and monitoring is helping this happen,’ concluded Murley.
Read the full report here.
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