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

♻️ Project timeline

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

2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 Project timeline Application submitted August 2007 Permission granted March 2008 Permission expired March 2011 Under construction April 2011 Operational May 2011

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.