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Blood Hill wind farm
Blood Hill Wind Turbines
Country	England, United Kingdom
Location	Near Hemsby in Norfolk
Coordinates	52°42′43″N 1°40′1″E / 52.71194°N 1.66694°E / 52.71194; 1.66694
Status	Operational
Commission date	December 1992
Power generation
Units operational	10
Make and model	Vestas: V27
Nameplate capacity	2.25 MW
External links
Website	https://web.archive.org/web/20070402205350/http://www.eon-uk.com/451.aspx
Commons	Related media on Commons
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Blood Hill is a wind farm near Hemsby in Norfolk, England. It is the smallest windfarm owned by E.ON; taking up 3 hectares. It has a nameplate capacity of 2.25MW which is enough to power 1000 homes at peak. There were 10 Vestas V27-225 kW 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.

In 2015 a repowering of the site saw the original 10 turbines replaced with 2 two Turbowind T400 wind turbines.

See also

• Wind power in the United Kingdom
• Sheringham Shoal Offshore Wind Farm
• Scroby Sands wind farm

References

1. E.ON UK - Blood Hill Archived April 2, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
2. "Blood Hill windfarm, United-Kingdom". Windpower database. Retrieved 4 July 2009.
3. "Our Wind Parks - Ecotricity". Archived from the original on 3 March 2009. Retrieved 5 August 2010.
4. "Great Yarmouth Borough Council". planning.great-yarmouth.gov.uk. Retrieved 20 January 2017.

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