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Whitelee Wind Farm
The 322 megawatt Whitelee Wind Farm was completed ahead of schedule in May 2009.
It is Europe's largest onshore wind farm, built by Scottish Power, which is part of the Spanish power company Iberdrola.
The wind farm uses 140 Siemens wind turbines.
Positioned 1200 feet above sea level, 9 miles outside Glasgow on the Lanarkshire fells, the wind farm has over half a million people living within a 25 mile radius.
It is one of the first large-scale wind farms to be constructed close to a large population centre.
The Scottish government has a target of generating 31% of Scotland's electricity from renewable energy by 2011 and 50% by 2020.
The majority of this is likely to come from wind power - this is a seriously windy country!
This particular farm - and pretty much every other one ever built it seems - generated a lot of opposition.
I've got very mixed thoughts on the issue: I support green energy wholeheartedly and in a strange way I think these windfarms can be quite beautiful, like ethereal creatures humming at the sky.
But if I lived right next to one, as many people on the outskirts of East Kilbride do with the Whitelee farm, I would probably think quite differently.
Whitelee Wind Farm
The 322 megawatt Whitelee Wind Farm was completed ahead of schedule in May 2009.
It is Europe's largest onshore wind farm, built by Scottish Power, which is part of the Spanish power company Iberdrola.
The wind farm uses 140 Siemens wind turbines.
Positioned 1200 feet above sea level, 9 miles outside Glasgow on the Lanarkshire fells, the wind farm has over half a million people living within a 25 mile radius.
It is one of the first large-scale wind farms to be constructed close to a large population centre.
The Scottish government has a target of generating 31% of Scotland's electricity from renewable energy by 2011 and 50% by 2020.
The majority of this is likely to come from wind power - this is a seriously windy country!
This particular farm - and pretty much every other one ever built it seems - generated a lot of opposition.
I've got very mixed thoughts on the issue: I support green energy wholeheartedly and in a strange way I think these windfarms can be quite beautiful, like ethereal creatures humming at the sky.
But if I lived right next to one, as many people on the outskirts of East Kilbride do with the Whitelee farm, I would probably think quite differently.