Radio City Association RCA Community Wind Turbine
Funded Project: Description
Radio City Association (RCA) are an anchor organisation of local community wealth building activities and are constructing a community owned wind turbine in the hills above Kilbirnie with the purpose of reinvesting any surpluses achieved from the electricity generated back into the community to address the many challenges of the area of the Garnock Valley in North Ayrshire particularly the prevalence of poverty and deprivation, including fuel poverty, and build community capacity to better address educational, employment and health inequalities locally.
RCA secured capital funding from various organisations and funding streams, including the Energy Redress Scheme, to build the first 100% community-owned onshore wind turbine that will operate commercially, without the use of government price support mechanisms.
Owned solely by the community, the turbine will have the capacity to generate 7,839 MWh of clean electricity per year, the equivalent of powering 2,234 average UK homes, once operational. It will also deliver 3,324 tonnes of carbon emissions reductions annually.