Goonhilly Downs Wind Farm Repower

6 turbines · operational · Cornwall

Wind farm facts

StatusOperational
County / regionCornwall
Turbines6
Installed capacity12 MW
Turbine capacity2 MW
Tip heightnot recorded
Operator (or applicant)REG Windpower (previously Cornwall Light & Power)
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 Project timeline Application submitted December 2007 Permission granted August 2008 Permission expired August 2010 Under construction August 2010 Operational November 2010

From application to operation, this scheme took about 3 years.

Source: Renewable Energy Planning Database, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Open Government Licence v3.0. REPD ref 3061.

What the register tells us

The application was determined in about 8 months. Construction to first power took about 3 months. A planning permission on this site expired in August 2010. The scheme has been operating for about 16 years. That works out at 2 MW per turbine on average.

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