Giant new 422ft wind turbine installed at Wanlip by Severn Trent
Windy, the new 422ft wind turbine which towers over the landscape north of Leicester, should be producing green energy to power a water treatment plant before Christmas.
The mast has been installed at its Wanlip sewage treatment works by Severn Trent Water.
Jon Beeson, renewable energy specialist at Severn Trent Water, said: “It will produce electricity for our business – equivalent to supplying about 1,500 homes with power.”
The turbine was ferried to the site in sectios on the back of lorries….