Lifespan extension for Teesside wind farm

Banks Renewables has secured planning permission to extend the life of one of its wind farms near Stockton-on-Tees.The company was originally given permission to operate the four-turbine Lambs Hill Wind Farm, which sits to the south west of Stillington, for 25 years.Having carried out regular maintenance work at the site, and reviewed its ongoing operational performance, the farm’s lifespan has now been extended to 40 years.No other aspects of the site will change as part of the planning application, with no new turbines planned for instalment.The Lambs Hill Wind Farm has been running since late 2016 and generated more than 20,400MWh of green electricity during Banks Renewables’ most recent financial year.The figure is enough to meet the annual electricity requirements of about 7,000 homes.Kate Culverhouse, community relations manager at the Banks Group, said: “The Lambs Hill Wind Farm has been efficiently generating significant amounts of clean green electricity for several years, and we’re very pleased that we will now be able to increase the contribution it can make towards meeting the UK’s Net Zero targets.”Extending the wind farm’s lifespan will help us maximise the environmental, energy security and social benefits that it can deliver, as well as enabling us to provide even more benefits directly into surrounding communities.”Generating as much of the energy that we all use as we can via renewable means will enable the country to decarbonise its power supply and achieve its climate change targets more quickly than would otherwise be possible.”