Green Park Business Park
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| Location | Reading, Berkshire, UK |
| Address | Green Park Reading RG2 6GP |
| Coordinates | 51°25′08″N 0°59′06″W / 51.419°N 0.985°WCoordinates: 51°25′08″N 0°59′06″W / 51.419°N 0.985°W |
| Website | greenpark.co.uk |
Green Park is a business park near junction 11 of the M4 motorway on the outskirts of Reading, but partly in the civil parish of Shinfield, in the English county of Berkshire. The site covers 180 acres (73 ha) and was developed by Prudential and PRUPIM. About five thousand people work on site.
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[edit] GreenPark wind turbine
The most visible feature of Green Park is an Enercon E-70[1] wind turbine, adjacent to the M4 motorway, and billed as the UK's most visible turbine. The blades are 33 m (108 ft) long, with a tower height of 85 m (279 ft). At a wind speed of 14 ms-1 (31 mph) the machine generates 2.05 MW of electricity (less for lower wind speeds), which is enough to power around 1,500 homes. It is owned and operated by Ecotricity and was completed in November 2005.[2] Between 2005 and 2010, it received £600,000 in public subsidies, while only working at 17% of its capacity. In 2010, the subsidies received were though to be worth more than the total amount of electricity that the turbine generated.[3]
[edit] Facilities
The facilities are in Lime Square. It offers a day nursery for pre-school children, as well as a play area for children up to 10 years. There is a fitness club with a swimming pool, a gymnasium, health and beauty studios and fitness classes, and a brasserie on the waterside.
[edit] Sport
The business park is adjacent to the Madejski Stadium, home of Reading Football Club and the London Irish rugby club. The annual Reading Half Marathon starts from within the business park, which provides the space needed for pre-race marshalling of the large numbers of competitors, and finishes in the stadium.
[edit] References
- ^ Bolsher, Terry (11 2005). "Green energy". BNET. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa5379/is_200511/ai_n21384201. Retrieved 2008-11-12.
- ^ GreenPark, Reading (archive.org copy of Ecotricity website)
- ^ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1355419/UKs-useless-wind-turbine-Cost-130k-raise-electricity-worth-100k.html
[edit] External links
Media related to Green Park Business Park at Wikimedia Commons
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