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Waste Recycling Group (WRG), an FCC subsidiary and one of the leading waste and resource management services com-panies in the United Kingdom, has been given the go-ahead to site two wind turbi-nes at its closed Carnaby Landfll site, near Bridlington in East Yorkshire. This marks its frst planning approval since moving into the wind energy sector in 2010.

As an environmentally aware company, WRG has been looking at additional ways it can use its landholding to help generate re-newable energy in the UK. Developing wind turbines on suitable operational or closed landfll sites was identifed as the next lo-gical step, and it has now submitted three

wind farm planning applications, with ano-ther three due to be submitted in the next couple of months.

The Carnaby Wind Energy Project will see

FCC Enería operates 14 wind farms in Spain

with 420 MW of installed capacity and another 45 MW are in the pipeline

The frst planning permit awarded to WRG since it entered the wind power sector in 2010.

the development of two turbines, each ca-pable of generating up to 3MW of renewa-ble electricity, which together are enough to power more than 2,500 homes. WRG an-ticipates that construction will commence early in 2012, and that the site will become operational by Summer 2012. The planning application to the East Riding of Yorkshire Council, followed a rigorous environmental assessment of the site and months of con-sultation with the local community.