Are wind turbines taking over the countryside?
There are now 1,769 wind turbines in 137 locations across the UK. A typical wind farm of about 20 turbines extends over an area of about one to two square kilometres. But only a small fraction of this land, about 1 2 per cent, is actually occupied by the turbines and access tracks. The bulk of the land is unaffected and can continue to be used for agriculture, grazing. In other words, to produce 10 per cent of the UK’s current electricity from the wind would use about 1 per cent of the total UK land area, with the turbines occupying only about 0.0002 per cent of the total UK land area.
