Pete Bailey, 69, provides 17 households with electricity from his 50kw turbine, which is located in Salwayash near Bridport, Dorset.

Retired engineer supplies households with cheaper green energy

Pete Bailey, a retired engineer known as “Windy Pete” by local people, has become the first person in England to supply renewable energy to his local community from his own private wind turbine.

Windy Pete’s private turbine powers up the neighbours

Founder of Energy Local, Mary is an applied physicist by training but her career has been as an engineer. She enjoys working with science and people to make our society and environment better for everyone. 

After gaining a first class masters in applied physics from the University of Edinburgh and her PhD at the University of Strathclyde, she has managed, led or been a team member in high profile technical innovative energy projects from a few thousand to millions of pounds.

Her main area of expertise is the development of smartgrids for the electricity distribution system to increase efficiency and to easily integrate renewable generation. Notably she lead Low Carbon Network Fund (LCNF) ‘Smart Village project’ working with Ashton Hayes, been technical engineer for LCNF Customer Lead Network Revolution and My Electric Avenue. She managed Ashton Hayes Low Carbon Communities Challenge (LCCC) Project and Local Energy Assessment Fund project and worked on Elexon funded investigations in local energy markets.

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