After being connected to the national grid last week, Windmill Farm is already putting almost 20,000 kilowatt hours per day of renewable electricity into the local grid.

An energy park featuring not one but two commercial scale renewable energy technologies operating side by side is unique for the UK. Comprising of a 5 MW solar farm, which covers 40 acres, it is home to 21, 500 photovoltaic panels. The solar panels are mounted on high steel frames. They are expected to generate around 4.7 gigawatts of electricity a year, equivalent to the average annual electricity consumption of 1,000 people.

The Windmill Farm took an average of 16 men working for 10 weeks from beginning to end, to complete.  The project was commissioned alongside an existing three-turbine wind scheme.