My father, Peter Edwards, who has died aged 90, was a pioneer of wind energy and set up the UK’s first commercial windfarm in 1991.
Peter opened the Delabole windfarm in north Cornwall on land belonging to a farm he had been running since the 1960s. For its first two decades it operated 10 400kW turbines, feeding into the National Grid and generating enough power for nearly 3,000 homes. In 2010 the original turbines were decommissioned and an £11.8m rebuild replaced them with four turbines with a power output of 9.2 megawatts, providing enough for more than 7,800 homes.
