Milton Keynes Wind Farm is a wind farm currently under construction, located 2 miles east of Emberton

Emberton

Emberton is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Milton Keynes, ceremonial county of Buckinghamshire in England. The village is near the border with Northamptonshire, just to the south of Olney and four miles north of Newport Pagnell....

 in the District of Milton Keynes

Milton Keynes

Milton Keynes , sometimes abbreviated MK, is a large town in Buckinghamshire, in the south east of England, about north-west of London. It is the administrative centre of the Borough of Milton Keynes...

, Buckinghamshire

Buckinghamshire

Buckinghamshire is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan home county in South East England. The county town is Aylesbury, the largest town in the ceremonial county is Milton Keynes and largest town in the non-metropolitan county is High Wycombe....

, UK. It was developed by Your Energy Ltd and is owned by Mistral Windfarms. The wind farm comprises seven turbines 125m to the blade tip, and will have a total installed capacity of 14 MW.
It is estimated they will produce approximately 38 GWh of electricity per year.

Development and Construction

A planning application was submitted in August 2006 to Milton Keynes Council by Your Energy Ltd, and was granted planning permission in January 2008.

The decision was challenged and upheld three separate times during 2008 by objectors to the project. It is the only wind farm to go as high as the House of Lords

House of Lords

The House of Lords is the upper house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Like the House of Commons, it meets in the Palace of Westminster....

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The main contractor for civil and electrical works was Morrison Construction, part of the Galliford Try

Galliford Try

Galliford Try plc is a leading British construction business. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index.-History:...

 Group. Danish company Vestas

Vestas

Vestas Wind Systems A/S is a Danish manufacturer, seller, installer, and servicer of wind turbines. It is the largest in the world, but due to very rapid growth of its competitors, its market share decreased from 28% in 2007 to 12.5% in 2009...

 supplied the turbines, Vestas V90-2MW

Vestas V90-2MW

The Vestas V90-2MW is a three bladed upwind horizontal axis wind turbine designed and manufactured by Vestas specifically for the light wind regimes of continental Europe...

 machines. Engineering Renewables Ltd are Project Managers for construction and operations.

The turbines were delivered to the Port of Hull, where they continued their journey to Milton Keynes by road. Construction commenced in November 2009 and is completed by September 2010.

Community Benefit Fund

£190,000 will be contributed towards community projects over the life of the wind farm. An additional £50,000 is being directed toward improving the biodiversity of the surrounding area and local footpath networks over the first five years.

A similar fund is in place at Burton Wold Wind Farm

Burton Wold Wind Farm

Burton Wold Wind Farm is a wind farm located near Burton Latimer in the English county of Northamptonshire, UK. The Wind Farm was developed by Your Energy Ltd, is owned by Mistral Windfarms and operated by Engineering Renewables Ltd. E.ON UK is buying the electricity output of the project under a...

, also developed by Your Energy Ltd.