Caton Moor Windfarm Repowering

8 turbines · operational · Lancashire

Wind farm facts

StatusOperational
County / regionLancashire
Turbines8
Installed capacity16 MW
Turbine capacity2 MW
Tip heightnot recorded
Operator (or applicant)Hainsford Energy
Turbine manufacturernot recorded
Turbine modelnot recorded

♻️ Project timeline

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

2001 2003 2005 2007 2009 2011 2013 2015 2017 Project timeline Application submitted November 2002 Refused September 2003 Permission granted October 2004 Granted on appeal October 2004 Under construction May 2006 Operational June 2006 Permission expired October 2017

From application to operation, this scheme took about 4 years.

Source: Renewable Energy Planning Database, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Open Government Licence v3.0. REPD ref 3171.

What the register tells us

The application was determined in about 23 months. Construction to first power took about 1 month. The register records a refusal in September 2003 before the scheme progressed. Permission was ultimately granted on appeal in October 2004. A planning permission on this site expired in October 2017. The scheme has been operating for about 20 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 2 MW per turbine on average.

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