December 2011

They’re back! (Apologies to the writers of the film Poltergeist).

Despite earlier promises, EK has come back with a new proposal for three turbines. Same place; same size; same blighting of neighbours’ lives; same scar on the landscape.

EnergieKontor’s first contact with the community was a brochure explaining the proposed wind farm’s benefits. Unfortunately, it contained so many errors, we've lodged a four point complaint with the Advertising Standards Authority.

EK held their one and only public demonstration at Coniston Cold Village Hall on 14 December. The company made some startling admissions. Rather than use data from their anemometer:

• they took their wind speed data from the internet; and
• to estimate Brightenber's power output, they used the UK's average turbine efficiency for 2009.   

So, what's wrong with the anemometer data? We asked EK but they refused to answer. We’d like to press them further but they’ve raised the drawbridge and will hold no more consultations.

Hmmm, interesting though; what's so bad about the anemometer data they can't share it or use it in their calculations?