Blood Hill wind farm | |
Coordinates: | 52.7119°N 1.6669°W |
Country: | England, United Kingdom |
Status: | Operational |
Commissioned: | December 1992 |
Ps Units Operational: | 10 |
Ps Units Manu Model: | Vestas: V27 |
Ps Electrical Capacity: | 2.25 MW |
Website: | https://web.archive.org/web/20070402205350/http://www.eon-uk.com/451.aspx |
Blood Hill is a wind farm near Hemsby in Norfolk, England. It is the smallest windfarm owned by E.ON; taking up 3 hectares.[1] It has a nameplate capacity of 2.25MW which is enough to power 1000 homes at peak. There were 10 Vestas V27-225 kW[2] turbines which were 30 metres tall and stand on top of Blood Hill. They are visible from the villages of Hemsby and Winterton-on-Sea. Blood Hill began operating in December 1992 and was one of the first windfarms in the United Kingdom.
In 2000 a much larger 65m 1.5MW Ecotricity turbine was built adjacent to the site.[3]
In 2015 a repowering of the site saw the original 10 turbines replaced with 2 two Turbowind T400 wind turbines.[4]