30 November 2006
E.On, parent company to energy providers Powergen, has led a celebration of a new wind farm in Stag's Holt in Cambridgeshire by planting nine trees on the site, one for each proposed wind turbine.
When complete, the Stag's Holt wind farm will provide environmentally friendly electricity for 33,500 homes as well as helping E.On with its commitment to reduce the carbon emissions. The company aims to cut carbon intensity by 10% by 2012, having already cut it by 20% since 1990.
Commenting on the ceremony, Adrian Chatterton, head of construction at E.On, said: "It's great to both start work on the wind farm and also to mark it in this special way with the planting of one tree for each of the turbines.
"But, most importantly, once we've finished building the scheme and it starts to generate it'll displace more than 20,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide every year. As we battle against global warming it's important that schemes such as Stag's Holt are built and that Cambridgeshire plays its part," he added.
According to the British Wind Energy Association, one 1.8 megawatt wind turbine at a reasonable site would produce over 4.7 million units of electricity each year, enough to meet the annual needs of over 1,000 households, or to run a computer for over 1,620 years.
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