The project will generate enough electricity to power 4, 500 homes annually and connect to the national grid via existing overhead lines.

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Mrs Prescott said their next project will be to try and generate their own electricity through sail power.

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Currently there are ways for solar power plant owners to crunch numbers to project how much electricity their power plants might generate year after year.

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First announced in January 2010, the project would feature between 150 and 440 turbines and could generate up to 2.2 GW of electricity, or enough to meet the needs of around 1.7 million homes.

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