Ecotricity's wind turbine at Chewton Mendip had another great year in 2012, producing enough clean, green electricity to power the equivalent of 1,250 average homes.

The single turbine produced over 5 million units (kWh) of electricity last year, with the wind resource down only marginally on 2011's total.

Since being commissioned in June 2008, the turbine has produced over 23 million units (kWh) of energy: that's enough electricity to keep an iPad going for nearly two million years, or drive an electric car (Nissan LEAF) around the equator over three thousand times.


Nick Osbourne, Ecotricity spokesperson, said: "Last year was another really successful 12 months of producing clean green renewable energy for the Shooter’s Bottom windmill near Chewton Mendip. January and December in particular were very windy months with high energy generation. The turbine has now been producing green electricity for almost five years and these figures continue to show what a feather in the cap it is for the county’s renewable credentials."

Ecotricity, the first green energy company in the UK, last week also secured permission for a 22 turbine wind park in Heckington Fen, Lincolnshire, and also recently announced that they had reached 70,000 green gas and electricity customers.

(CD/GK)