The Queen's holiday home Balmoral Estate is about to get a big update
April 02, 2020 - 11:01 BST Bridie Wilkins The Queen has officially won a battle against environmentalists to build a hydroelectric turbine on her holiday home, Balmoral Estate in Scotland and, outside of coronavirus circumstances, it is usually open to the public from 1 April to 31 July for you to see for yourself.Balmoral Estate is home to Balmoral Castle, as well as Craigowan Lodge and Birkhall
The turbine will feature a two-megawatt generator on the River Muick, which runs through the estate where she spends her extended summer break with the Duke of Edinburgh, and will generate up to £650,000 of green power a year to make the property entirely self-sufficient. Any surplus electricity will be sold on to the National Grid.
Louise Cunningham, a spokeswoman for Aberdeenshire Council's Environmental Team who halted the proposals said in planning documents:"Typically, hydropower turbines can emit significant amounts of noise. The noise information currently provided in the Environmental Statement offers no measurements of the current background noise nor any site-specific predictions.
However, a similar hydropower scheme on the Gelder Burn, a stream that also runs through the area, proved that hydro generation had been a success for the economic and environmental sustainability of Balmoral Estates since being commissioned in 2014. The Estate is home to: Balmoral Castle, where the Queen stays during summer and which is open to the public until the Queen arrives in summer; Craigowan Lodge, where the Queen stays until the Castle closes to the public and Birkhall, where Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall spend their summer.Make sure you never miss a ROYAL story! Sign up to our newsletter to get all of our celebrity, royal and lifestyle news delivered directly to your inbox.
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