BACKGROUND

A team of experienced planning professionals, developers and engineers have been investigating the Penshurst site since 2006. Our sophisticated mapping software has allowed us to identify Penshurst as a suitable location and will allow us to plan turbine locations according to a number of environmental, cultural heritage, visual and acoustic constraints. In late 2006 RES erected a meteorological mast to perform wind monitoring approximately 7km to the south of Penshurst. More recently another wind monitoring mast has been erected approximately 11km south-west of Penshurst.  In this time we have also undertaken various other preliminary studies which have indicated that the site is an ideal area for wind farm development.

By utilizing the abundant and free resource of the wind we will be able to generate secure and reliable electricity without the need for harmful fossil fuels and their associated emissions of carbon dioxide, sulphur dioxide and nitrous oxide. Prior to the submission of a planning permit application for the wind farm, RES will undertake the required assessments to ensure that if the wind farm was built in this region, it would not have an adverse affect on the local environment.