Wind Turbine

Ashton under Lyne Sixth Form College on Darnton Road has installed a 20kw wind turbine on its playing field as a way of cutting power bills and helping the environment.

This vertical axis wind turbine was designed to produce renewable energy cost-effectively, cleanly and quietly. This is the first college in the North West to have its own on-site wind turbine.

It is very new and was only switched on in October. A slight blur in the photograph will show you that the turbine was rotating fairly quickly when this shot was taken from nearby Montague Road. The high open country of Hobson Moor above Stalybridge can be seen in the background.

Older readers will remember the Sixth Form College as being Ashton Grammar School.

See Google Aerial View of this location.