Has anyone thought of putting medium size wind turbines on electricity pylons?
Obvious advantages:
- the most expensive bit is already there
- objections to the tower being there can’t be raised
- the wiring could presumably be easily be modified to move the electricity.
Disadvantage:
- could only carry medium sized turbines because of the strength of the towers and the need for the blades to clear the wires.
I would love to work out a bit of the economics, but I can’t quickly find on the web how many pylons there are in the UK.


pylons, wind-turbines