Ford's Dagenham Diesel Centre, completed in 2004, is home to London's first large-scale wind power project. The project consists of two wind turbines, each 85 meters tall with 35-meter blades. During the first full year of the project's operation (2005), the turbines generated 6 million kilowatt-hours (kWh) of electricity, more than enough to power the Centre. The Dagenham Diesel Centre produces high-performance, fuel-saving diesel engines, which are assembled in sterile conditions, as required for the latest high-precision common-rail fuel and turbo systems.
The Dagenham Diesel Centre expanded during 2006, and it will expand further in 2007. Construction of a third wind turbine, to be completed in early 2008, will add more than 3 million kWh of annual production, so that the Dagenham project will represent half of all planned wind power capacity in the London region.
