Turncole Wind Farm is a 7-turbine wind farm near to Burnham-on-Crouch, in the Maldon District of Essex, which became fully operational in January 2017.
The wind farm has an installed capacity of 17.5MW of renewable electricity. This is sufficient to meet the annual average needs of approximately 14,000 UK homes*.
It also delivers direct community benefits to local people in the form of a £153 index-linked annual electricity discount for properties within 2.5km of the turbines, plus a Community Fund of at least £35,000 index-linked each year to support local projects.
* Based on Ofgem's estimate of typical household electricity consumption (2,700KWh).