Supporting Documentation - Renfrewshire Council

1.3 The Applicant
Intelligent Land Investments Renewable Energy (ILI RE) structure a business strategy which puts the
landowners and the environment first. The reason for their growth over the years has been putting the
landowner, local authority, consultant and local community partnership at the heart of that process.
Presently ILI RE is working alongside set government strategies to encourage the growth for single rural
turbines. This is an opportunity like no other for landowners and local communities to play their part in
making the government strategy become reality. The Government believes that Scotland could become
the "hi-tech workshop of the world" driven by a green energy revolution and Intelligent Land Investments
is set to help achieve these targets.
1.4 General Turbine Specifications
• A single wind turbine is planned with a maximum tip height of 45.9m.
• The turbine is predicted to generate around 0.59 GWh per year, enough power to displace
about 254 tonnes of CO2 per annum.
• The turbine is positioned along a field boundary to minimise the amount of productive
farmland lost, and is as far away from houses as possible.
• The construction period will be relatively short, minimising any traffic disruption. The main
impact on the roads will be bringing in stone for the hard standing area and concrete for the
foundations. Turbines generally re-pay the energy used in their manufacture and
installation in about 6 – 8 months.
• These turbines are relatively quiet, according to manufacturer’s guidelines, and noise
levels experienced at nearby residencies will be minimal, the background noise effectively
masking that produced by the turbine.
• Further technical information is available from; Waterman Group, Tel: 0131 221 7020.
1.5 Supporting Documentation
Waterman provide civil, structural, environmental, mechanical & electrical design services to our clients in
support of project planning, design, construction and management.
As the demand for renewable power increases we face the challenge of meeting this demand whilst
creating sustainable solutions. We provide pre-planning advice on site-selection and assist throughout
the planning.
Waterman takes the lead in delivering environmentally sustainable solutions and our specialist
understanding of planning issues that include environmental solutions, transportation planning, land
engineering and hydrology help clients to deliver plans that achieve approval, and make concept become
reality.
Waterman Group, Renewable Energy, 2/4 Canning Street Lane, Edinburgh, EH3 8ER T:0131 221 7020
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