Severn Trent is carrying out viability studies for a wind turbine at a sewage plant near Nottingham.
The water and wastewater services company has submitted plants to put up a 60 metre monitoring mast to assess the viability of the site.
"We would like to erect some wind-measurement equipment to assess the viability for wind turbines at Newthorpe Sewage Treatment Works – although, we would like to point out that, even where wind measurement is deployed, there are still a lot of considerations and studies which need to be undertaken before a site can be determined as being suitable for development," spokesman Martin Dent told This is Nottingham.
Severn Trent aims to generate 30 per cent of its energy from renewable sources by 2012-2013.
At the moment it generates most of its renewable energy from sewage sludge.
According to E.ON, wind is the most commercially viable of the renewable energy technologies available.
The largest publicly owned energy company operates 20 offshore and onshore wind farms.
