Calderdale Energy Park 240 MW

CEP 240MW is the latest attempt by Saudi-financed Calderdale Wind Farm Ltd to design a wind farm on Walshaw Moor.

It would destroy the internationally designated Special Protection Area, one of the most successful breeding places for red-listed curlews and lapwings and Special Area of Conservation, listed for its irreplaceable peat habitats.

It would cut the heart out of internationally renowned Brontë Country, probably the first and still the greatest untouched literary landscape in the UK.

Using the normal UK standard for minimum turbine spacings always previously practised by the Project Director Christian Egal, CEP 240 MW is grossly overcrowded.  The track layout would be unusually destructive compared to reputable Pennine wind farms like Scout Moor because it follows contours and will require extensive embankments in the many deep clough crossings, contrary to Environment Agency best practice. Electricity billpayers will be dismayed by the obvious inefficiencies visible in the map. By the simple elimination of the Wuthering Heights turbines T20, T21, T28 and T29, the destructive track system would be more than halved in length.

CEP 240 MW slams shut the access to nature recently opened by the King’s Pennine Gateway National Nature Reserve and described as one of seven Wonders of the World  2026 by Condé Nast Traveller magazine. In particular T29 and T30 put up two fingers to the King’s work with Natural England to create a gateway to a natural wonderland for the youngest community in the UK.