Masters Quarry

Welcome to the first wind farm in Dorset: Alaska Wind Farm

Alaska is a wind energy project comprising 4 wind turbines that are currently under construction at Masters Quarry in East Stoke, near Wareham, Purbeck. This website aims to update you on progress and provide ways to get in touch with the project team.

Alaska Wind Farm is the first of its kind in the county. Dorset has a limited potential for large-scale onshore wind development due to a variety of environmental and technical constraints, such as landscape designations and grid connection opportunities. Extensive technical assessments undertaken during the planning process have demonstrated that the quarry off Puddletown Road makes an excellent site for a wind farm. At present, all four wind turbines have been installed and the team is working on connecting them to the local electricity network. Grid connection is taking longer than anticipated, but the project team are working with the Distribution Network Operator, SSE Networks, to get the wind farm connected. A technical issue was overcome in October and after a number of weeks’ delay, commissioning has now been resumed. Once operational, the amount of green electricity generated is expected to meet the annual demand of up to 5,200 average UK households every year*.

*Source: RenewableUK

Wind farm location within Purbeck, Dorset