US-based GE is supplying turbines to two new wind farms in central England; the company has supplied the Chelveston wind farm in Northamptonshire with nine 2.85 MW wind turbines and will deliver nine 1.6 MW wind turbines to the Burton Wold wind farm extension in Kettering, around 15 miles away. The Chelveston wind farm, part of the Chelveston Renewable Energy Park, was commissioned in September and entered full operation in October. The site was formerly a Ministry of Defense bomber base throughout World War II later a radio-mast transmitter site until 2005. The renewable energy park will also contain biomass plants, biofuel generators and solar photovoltaic arrays.
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