🌬️ Onshore wind farm

Carn Vean
Cornwall

Recorded in WhichWindTurbine: 5 wind turbines in operation. Point the app at one of them to see its profile in real time.

5
turbines
10 MW
MW total
2 MW
per turbine

📍 5 turbines mapped — each dot is a turbine recorded in the database. Average position: 50.16424 N · 5.16185 W.

Carn Vean

5 turbines · operational · Cornwall

Wind farm facts

StatusOperational
County / regionCornwall
Turbines5
Installed capacity10 MW
Turbine capacity2 MW
Tip heightnot recorded
Operator (or applicant)Unknown
Turbine manufacturernot recorded
Turbine modelnot recorded
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♻️ Project timeline

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

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  1. 1Jun 2008 — Application submitted
  2. 2Sep 2008 — Permission granted
  3. 3Oct 2008 — Operational

The register also records a planning permission expiry in Sep 2016, after commissioning: an administrative date with no effect on the operating wind farm, left off the axis.

DevelopmentConstructionOperationAhead (repowering horizon at 22 years)

From application to operation, this scheme took about 0 year.

Source: Renewable Energy Planning Database, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Open Government Licence v3.0. REPD ref 3077.

What the register tells us

The application was determined in about 3 months. A planning permission on this site expired in September 2016. The scheme has been operating for about 18 years. That works out at 2 MW per turbine on average.

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Sources and dates

DataSourceExtract
Site, capacity, status, planning milestonesRenewable Energy Planning Database (DESNZ, Open Government Licence v3)Q2 2026, published 03/08/2026
Turbine positionsOpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)19/08/2026
Manufacturer and modelOpenStreetMap tags, unverified — REPD does not record turbine models. Known for 41 % of UK turbines (manufacturer) and 32 % (model); some values are propagated within a site and may be wrong.19/08/2026

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