Ecotricity G24i Wind Turbine Construction Timelapse (1 min version)

Just launched! This is exciting stuff, a world first no less: one of our fabulous windmills, making the energy to power a factory making... solar panels!

G24i Innovations, a solar company based near Cardiff, is using the latest breakthrough in material science and nanotechnology to create new solar cells that are the closest anyone has come to replicating nature's photosynthesis. You can already find their lightweight, flexible panels in products such as solar courier bags and backpacks, allowing people to charge their mobile phones, cameras and other gadgets on the move.

Now our new windmill is up and running, the energy used to make the solar panels themselves will itself come from a source of renewable energy - the power of the wind, from an Ecotricity windmill (our first in Wales too).

This is a vision of the future. Using the power of the wind to make solar panels to harness the power of the sun - Renewable energy being used to make more renewable energy.

This is a world first from Ecotricity and G24i.

[LaurenMartins]

Love it, well done, I recently changed from EDF to Ecotricity and Im very happy :)

[akedemi]

Energy + greens united = no diaster=infinte life.this is true

[gtech]

Yeah you're right they don't run all the time, but when they are put up is only expected that they will run 20-30% of the time. A turbine that runs 25% of the time will pay for itself in 7 years...

[janebusby]

THE IGNORANCE IN THESE COMMENTS IS ASTOUNDING.

WAKE UP! North Sea oil production has been in decline since the turn of the century. Unlike Saudi Arabia, Britain is NOT a country that's rich in fossil fuels and Nuclear energy is the most expensive energy, period.

Ignore theories of climate change if you like ..What do you think will happen to our energy bills as we increasingly import finite fuels from further afield??

Renewables are about independence & a lower rate of consumption.

[MrAshers]

I'm sorry but this is silly, enough power for 1600 homes? Yeh right?! You think that think will run all yeh round all the time? What about when the wind dies down and these things actually consume energy to keep turning (so that they still look good to joe public).. Or when it has too b shut off because the wind is too high.. But they would never tell you these things ..