Bradwell Wind Farm (Repower)

10 turbines · operational · Essex

Wind farm facts

StatusOperational
County / regionEssex
Turbines10
Installed capacity20 MW
Turbine capacity2 MW
Tip heightnot recorded
Operator (or applicant)Npower Renewables
Turbine manufacturerSenvion
Turbine modelnot recorded

♻️ Project timeline

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

2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 Project timeline Application submitted March 2006 Permission granted July 2006 Permission expired July 2010 Under construction April 2012 Operational September 2013

From application to operation, this scheme took about 7 years.

Source: Renewable Energy Planning Database, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Open Government Licence v3.0. REPD ref 3936.

What the register tells us

The application was determined in about 4 months. Construction to first power took about 17 months. A planning permission on this site expired in July 2010. The scheme has been operating for about 13 years. That works out at 2 MW per turbine on average.