In 2017, Peel Energy (now Peel NRE) partnered with Belltown Tower to complete one of the England’s largest onshore wind farms consisting of 19 Nordex wind turbines in Frodsham, Cheshire. 

The 50MW site, generates renewable electricity to the grid, enough to supply the equivalent of around 25,000 homes per year saving almost 200,000 tonnes of carbon annually. 

Consent for the wind farm was granted by the Secretary of State in 2012 and since it has been operational, it has helped to create an energy cluster in the area with Peel NRE’s Protos energy and resource hub next door specialising in plastic recycling, hydrogen generation and energy from waste.  

Visible from the M56, Frodsham Wind Farm’s proximity to oil refineries, fertiliser plants and glass-making factories at Ellesmere Port presents a real opportunity to help decarbonise heavy industry. 

More than 100 hectares of land around the wind farm have been enhanced to create better habitats for wildlife including birds, badgers and bats. 

The Marshes Community Benefit Fund set up by the wind farm in 2016, has also contributed over £480,000 to local projects and hosted many educational visits to the site for schools and universities as well as guided walks for local people.  

Frodsham Wind Farm was bought by the Foresight Group in 2019.