🌬️ Onshore wind farm

Goonhilly Downs Wind Farm Repower
Cornwall

Recorded in WhichWindTurbine: 6 wind turbines in operation. Point the app at one of them to see its profile in real time.

6
turbines
12 MW
MW total
2 MW
per turbine

📍 6 turbines mapped — each dot is a turbine recorded in the database. Average position: 50.04599 N · 5.20313 W.

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 manufacturerVestas (secondary source)
Turbine modelV80 (secondary source)
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○ Cross-checked reference — turbine make and model (secondary source)

Vestas · V80 · 6 turbines · 2 MW each

Source: Wikipedia, list of onshore wind farms in England (compiled from RenewableUK's UKWED and The Wind Power), read on 2026-09-19. This is a compiled list, not a primary record. It is shown because two independent facts — turbine count and rated power — match the database exactly. Awaiting confirmation from a primary source.

♻️ Project timeline

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

→ ~20332010201520202025today12345
  1. 1Dec 2007 — Application submitted
  2. 2Aug 2008 — Permission granted
  3. 3Aug 2010 — Under construction
  4. 4Aug 2010 — Permission expired
  5. 5Nov 2010 — Operational

DevelopmentConstructionOperationAhead (repowering horizon at 22 years)

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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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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