🌬️ Onshore wind farm

East Midlands Airport
Leicestershire

Recorded in WhichWindTurbine: 4 wind turbines in operation. Point the app at one of them to see its profile in real time.

4
turbines
1 MW
MW total
0.25 MW
per turbine

📍 4 turbines mapped — each dot is a turbine recorded in the database. Average position: 52.82139 N · 1.34072 W.

East Midlands Airport

4 turbines · operational · Leicestershire

Wind farm facts

StatusOperational
County / regionLeicestershire
Turbines4
Installed capacity1 MW
Turbine capacity0.25 MW
Tip heightnot recorded
Operator (or applicant)Wind Direct
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. 1Aug 2007 — Application submitted
  2. 2Mar 2008 — Permission granted
  3. 3Mar 2011 — Permission expired
  4. 4Apr 2011 — Under construction
  5. 5May 2011 — Operational

DevelopmentConstructionOperationAhead (repowering horizon at 22 years)

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 4113.

What the register tells us

The application was determined in about 7 months. Construction to first power took about 1 month. A planning permission on this site expired in March 2011. The scheme has been operating for about 15 years. That works out at 0.25 MW per turbine on average.

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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