Banks Renewables onshore wind farms have generated two million megawatt-hours of green energy, reached in 12 years.
The output meets annual energy requirements of almost 650,000 homes, or a city more than twice the size of Newcastle.
Banks Renewables’ first onshore wind farm, the 12-turbine West Durham wind farm near its then-headquarters in Tow Law, went live in 2009 and was sold to the Irish state electricity utility ESB later in the year to help fund the long-term development of the business.
Since then, the family-owned company has developed 11 further onshore wind farms – four in Yorkshire, three in Scotland and two each in the north east and north west of England.
Banks Renewables is currently progressing plans to build two more onshore wind farms in Scotland in the next few years, Lethans in East Ayrshire and an extension to its existing Kype Muir wind farm near Hamilton.
It is also looking to deploy further renewable energy technologies at a number of new sites both within and outside its home region, with a planning application for the first of these, the Barnsdale solar energy park to the south east of Leeds, being submitted for review by Leeds City Council at the end of 2020.