Airport to press ahead with turbines plan
12.01.10
East Midlands Airport hopes to have four giant wind turbines built by the end of this year, the Mercury reports. Planning permission was granted for the four 45m high electricity generating turbines nearly two years ago but construction has yet to start, leading some to question whether they would be built.
An airport spokesman told the newspaper that there were internal planning measures to be completed before the building phase of the project began. She said: ‘We are pressing ahead with the plan. We do not have a date set for it but we hope it will be before the end of the year.’
When they are built, the turbines will generate 900 kilowat - about 10% of the airport's energy needs or equal to the amount needed to power 500 houses. They are part of a plan to make the airport's ground operations carbon neutral.
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