Bears Down Wind Farm

16 turbines · operational · Cornwall

Wind farm facts

StatusOperational
County / regionCornwall
Turbines16
Installed capacity9.8 MW
Turbine capacity0.6 MW
Tip heightnot recorded
Operator (or applicant)Natural Power
Turbine manufacturernot recorded
Turbine modelnot recorded

♻️ Project timeline

Dated milestones from the UK Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD), Q2 2026 — not estimates.

1999 2002 2005 2008 2011 2014 2017 2020 2023 Original scheme Application submitted May 2000 Permission granted June 2000 Operational August 2001 Permission expired June 2015 Later scheme Application submitted February 2024

From application to operation, this scheme took about 1 year.

The register links a second scheme on this site (REPD ref 15407, Application Submitted): 5 turbines · 4.5 MW each · 150 m tip height · applicant Clean Earth Energy Limited. Two schemes on one site usually mean a repowering or an extension — to be confirmed with the operator.

Source: Renewable Energy Planning Database, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Open Government Licence v3.0. REPD ref 3392.

What the register tells us

The application was determined in about 1 month. A planning permission on this site expired in June 2015. The scheme has been operating for about 25 years. At that age, wind farms commonly become candidates for repowering or life extension — nothing in the register confirms such a plan here. That works out at 0.61 MW per turbine on average.

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