🌬️ Onshore wind farm

Cotton Farm
Cambridgeshire

Recorded in WhichWindTurbine: 8 wind turbines in operation. Point the app at one of them to see its profile in real time.

8
turbines
20 MW
MW total
2.5 MW
per turbine

📍 8 turbines mapped — each dot is a turbine recorded in the database. Average position: 52.26005 N · 0.19651 W.

Cotton Farm

8 turbines · operational · Cambridgeshire

Wind farm facts

StatusOperational
County / regionCambridgeshire
Turbines8
Installed capacity20 MW
Turbine capacity2.5 MW
Tip heightnot recorded
Operator (or applicant)Greencoat UK Wind
Turbine manufacturernot recorded
Turbine modelMM92
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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. 1Aug 2008 — Application submitted
  2. 2Nov 2009 — Refused
  3. 3Dec 2010 — Permission granted
  4. 4Dec 2010 — Granted on appeal
  5. 5May 2012 — Under construction
  6. 6Mar 2013 — Operational

DevelopmentConstructionOperationAhead (repowering horizon at 22 years)

From application to operation, this scheme took about 5 years.

Source: Renewable Energy Planning Database, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Open Government Licence v3.0. REPD ref 3971.

What the register tells us

The application was determined in about 28 months. Construction to first power took about 10 months. The register records a refusal in November 2009 before the scheme progressed. Permission was ultimately granted on appeal in December 2010. The scheme has been operating for about 13 years. That works out at 2.5 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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