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Cartmel Village Hall, Monday 4 th August 2008 Dr Mike Hall, Vice-chairman, FELLS

THE STRIBERS WIND FARM PROPOSAL. Cartmel Village Hall, Monday 4 th August 2008 Dr Mike Hall, Vice-chairman, FELLS. OUTLINE Why is Cumbria under siege? Developments on the Furness & Cartmel Peninsulas STRIBERS - A look at the claims made by the developer Electricity generation

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Cartmel Village Hall, Monday 4 th August 2008 Dr Mike Hall, Vice-chairman, FELLS

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  1. THE STRIBERS WIND FARM PROPOSAL Cartmel Village Hall, Monday 4th August 2008 Dr Mike Hall, Vice-chairman, FELLS

  2. OUTLINE • Why is Cumbria under siege? • Developments on the Furness & Cartmel Peninsulas • STRIBERS - A look at the claims made by the developer • Electricity generation • Houses supplied • CO2 saved (climate change) • benefits • Planning – a question of balance • Concluding remarks

  3. NW NE SE SW

  4. Windfarms in Cumbria[July 2008] • Operational = 15 (~100 onshore turbines) • In construction = 3 • Planning = 34 (22 active) • Rejected = 8 (+3) ------ = 63

  5. How has this situation arisen? • Probably the most beautiful county in England • Tourist driven - £1.14 billion in income in 2007 • Employing 36,017 people (20,940 FTE) • Seeking World Heritage Site status

  6. Where will the gas come from? Russia, Ukraine, Nigeria, Iran, Venezuela

  7. Targets in the NW Sub-regions for 2010 1 = NW Regional Spatial Strategy, policy EM17 2 = NWRA Energy & GHG Emissions Study (AEA Group), page viii (August 2007)

  8. CUMBRIA’S LANDSCAPE DESIGNATIONS NP – 35.0% AONB – 9.7% Heritage Coast – 2.7% Under review – 7.1% ------------------------------------------- Undesignated – 45.5% Cumbria’s designated areas Cumbria’s targets are not reasonable

  9. LANDSCAPE CAPACITY ASSESSMENT - 2006 Cumbria Wind Energy Supplementary Planning Document - 2007 LOW – all scales generally inappropriate LOW/MODERATE – small group (3-5 turbines) MODERATE – up to a small group (5), or exceptionally up to a large group (9) MODERATE (9) to HIGH – up to a medium w/f (16-25)

  10. OUTLINE • Why is Cumbria under siege? • Developments on the Furness & Cartmel Peninsulas • STRIBERS - A look at the claims made by the developer • Electricity generation • Houses supplied • CO2 saved (climate change) • benefits • Planning – a question of balance • Concluding remarks

  11. KIRKBY MOOR (9) HARLOCK HILL (5) STANDISH COTE on this hill (10) FAR OLD PARK (off screen 8) Having one wind farm does not mean you will not get more

  12. EXISTING, AND PLANNED WIND FARMS ON & NEAR THE FURNESS PENINSULA

  13. OUTLINE • Why is Cumbria under siege? • Developments on the Furness & Cartmel Peninsulas • STRIBERS - A look at the claims made by the developer • Electricity generation • Houses supplied • CO2 saved (climate change) • benefits • Planning – a question of balance • Concluding remarks

  14. Stribers wind farm • Energia in Natura (Italian) • Former proposal 3 turbines on NFFO site • This proposal 6 turbines on larger site abutting the National Park • 6 x 125 metres (410ft)

  15. THE STRIBERS ELLERSIDE PROPOSED LAYOUT

  16. Claims for electricity generation [32,000 megawatts/year – acceptable]

  17. From the Energia’s web site • ‘The technology (wind power) ….. is ensuring reliability, efficiency, and the benefits of large scale…’

  18. Annual 1971-2000 2.3 to 8.0 8.0 to 11.5 11.5 to 16.1 16.1 to 20.7 20.7 to 27.6 27.6 to 34.5 34.5 to 36.0 Mph equivalent UK WIND SPEEDS Guernsey = 14.1 mph Jersey = 13.0 mph ‘The climate of the UK and recent trends’. Published by the UK Climate Impacts Programme and the Meteorological Office. December 2007

  19. Frequency of wind speeds in the UK (Met Office data) 73% below 18mph

  20. WHEN DOES A WIND TURBINE PRODUCE ELECTRICITY? 27% above 18mph

  21. 73% 27%

  22. Load factors at 10 NW wind farms AVERAGE = 24.4%Data from OFGEM

  23. in fact • Depending on the site, wind farms produce no worthwhile amounts of electricity for 55 to 110 day a year • For 75% of the time their output is less than half their full power

  24. The reality of Denmark’s wind carpet Wind power output exceeded 2,000MW 9 times in 2003 but fell below 100MW 36 times The output is random and unpredictable

  25. Energia Press Release August 2nd 2008 • ‘Stribers wind farm will, when built, generate sufficient electricity for 8,500 homes and save many thousand tonnes of carbon dioxide. • Stribers fulfils many Local, Regional, National and European objectives in meeting the challenges of global warming and the effects of climate change’ • Community support …. welcomes the opportunities provided for local regeneration created by the development of Stribers….’ Bob Ayres (Energia in Natura)

  26. So how can they claim to supply 8,500 home? In fact; • They will provide power for ZERO homes for up to 110 days a year • and precious little for another 110 days

  27. They use the constant power supply from the National Grid provided by; • spinning reserve or back up for 75% of the time mostly from coal or gas-fired power stations.

  28. How many 2.5 MW wind turbines would be needed to generate the same amount of electricity as Heysham nuclear power station? ANSWER: 3,200 spread over an area of 200,000 acres of land OR 533 STRIBERS WIND FARMS

  29. Energia Press Release August 2nd 2008 • ‘Stribers wind farm will, when built, generate sufficient electricity for 8,500 homes and save many thousand tonnes of carbon dioxide (18,000 tonnes). • Stribers fulfils many Local, Regional, National and European objectives in meeting the challenges of global warming and the effects of climate change • Community support …. welcomes the opportunities provided for local regeneration created by the development of Stribers….’ Bob Ayres (Energia in Natura)

  30. Stribers, carbon dioxide savings and climate change

  31. VANISHING CO2 SAVINGS Dirty coal 1995 OFGEM,DEFRA, CARBON TRUST & GOVT 2004-7 BWEA to 2007 Wicks TODAY DEFRA 2010 Malcolm Wicks is the current Energy Minister

  32. Energia’s claims • A saving of 18,000 tonnes of CO2 per year using a factor of 0.56t/MWh CORRECT FIGURE TODAY IS 11,814 tonnes falling by 2010 to 8,600 tonnes

  33. Eon have applied to build Kingsnorth coal-fired power station in England. They say it will emit 700,000 tonnes of CO2 a month (=23,300 tonnes per day) ……..this will cancel out the annual savingsof Stribers in just 1 day

  34. The back-up paradox

  35. WIND BLOWING HARD W = 2GW Spare capacity W = 10GW W = 33GW C C C BY 2020 TODAY BY 2015 C = CONVENTIONAL (NUCLEAR, GAS, COAL) GENERATION; W = WIND GENERATION

  36. WINDLESS DAY Spare capacity C C C BY 2020 TODAY BY 2015 C = CONVENTIONAL (NUCLEAR, GAS, COAL) GENERATION; W = WIND GENERATION

  37. Paul Golby, CEO of Eon (UK) said; • ‘It would take 50 gigawatts of renewable energy to meet the EU target [of 15%]. But it would take 90% of this amount as back-up from coal and gas plants to ensure supply when intermittent renewables were not available. That would push Britain’s installed power base from the existing 76 gigawatts to 120 gigawatts’. The Guardian, June 4th 2008

  38. 46 gigawatts would require; • Over 40 new nuclear power stations or • 20 coal-fired power stations, or • Around 80 gas-fired power stations WOW! And that’s just to back-up the wind farms

  39. Confirmed by • Christopher Barton (Director of UK Renewable Energy Strategy Project at [BERR]). House of Lords Inquiry on 17 March 2008. Q.12 page 9 • European Union for the Transmission of Electricity Report, 2007 • Graham Sinden in Wind Power & the UK Wind Resource, Environmental Change Institute Oxford University, 2005

  40. So more wind means more ordinary power stations emitting CO2 and not less – just as Germany is finding out

  41. UK CO2 savings 2006-7 DEFRA Press Release 28th March 2008 ‘In 2007, UK emissions of carbon dioxide were…. 2 per cent lower than the 2006 a fall of 10.8 million tonnes. The decrease resulted from fuel switching from coal to natural gas for electricity generation, combined with lower fossil fuel consumption by households and industry’ No mention of wind, or other renewables!

  42. OUTLINE • Why is Cumbria under siege? • Developments on the Furness & Cartmel Peninsulas • STRIBERS - A look at the claims made by the developer • Electricity generation • Houses supplied • CO2 saved (climate change) • benefits • Planning – a question of balance • Concluding remarks

  43. PLANNING - a question of balance Sum CO2 savings Power generation total of adverse impacts

  44. In order to come to a fair conclusion Councillors have to consider the claimed benefits of any scheme against its negative impacts • PPS22 (Policy Planning Statement 22) • PPS1 (Delivering Sustainable Development) • Regional Spatial Strategy for the NW • Cumbria & Lake District Joint Structure Plan (2001-2016) – especially Policy R44 • Cumbria Wind Energy SPD • Local Plans

  45. PPS 22 Key Principle 1 states; • ‘Renewable energy developments should be capable of being accommodated throughout England in locations where the technology is viableand environmental, economic, and social impacts can be addressed satisfactorily’.

  46. The CWESPD states; ‘… [the landscape character assessment] only provides an indication of the relative capacity of different landscapes. It should not be used in a definitive sense, i.e. to mean that a particular proposal would be acceptable….’

  47. Valid planning issue include: • Landscape impact • Visual impact (including cumulative) • Impact on habitats & species (designated) • Impact on tourism • Historical and cultural heritage • Impact on water supplies (home and rivers) • Impact on telecommunications • Noise, vibration & flicker

  48. Visual Impact of wind turbinesCriteria of the Cumbria Wind Energy Supplementary Planning Document, August 2006 • Dominant up to 2.4km • Prominent 2.4 to 6km • Conspicuous 6 to 12 km • Apparent 12 to 18 km • Inconspicuous 18 to 30km

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