Blue Gates Farm

1 turbines · operational · Essex

Wind farm facts

StatusOperational
County / regionEssex
Turbines1
Installed capacity1.5 MW
Turbine capacity1.5 MW
Tip heightnot recorded
Operator (or applicant)M H Leyland Ltd
Turbine manufacturernot recorded
Turbine modelnot recorded

♻️ Project timeline

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

2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 Project timeline Application submitted June 2009 Permission granted September 2009 Operational March 2010 Refused February 2017

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

Source: Renewable Energy Planning Database, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Open Government Licence v3.0. REPD ref 2694.

What the register tells us

The application was determined in about 3 months. The register records a refusal in February 2017 before the scheme progressed. The scheme has been operating for about 16 years. That works out at 1.5 MW per turbine on average.