🌬️ Onshore wind farm

Great Eppleton Farm Repowering
Tyne and Wear

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

4
turbines
8.2 MW
MW total
2 MW
per turbine

📍 4 turbines mapped — each dot is a turbine recorded in the database. Average position: 54.8331 N · 1.43056 W.

Great Eppleton Farm Repowering

4 turbines · operational · Tyne and Wear

Wind farm facts

StatusOperational
County / regionTyne and Wear
Turbines4
Installed capacity8.2 MW
Turbine capacity2 MW
Tip heightnot recorded
Operator (or applicant)E.ON UK
Turbine manufacturerREpower (now Senvion) (secondary source)
Turbine modelMM92 (secondary source)
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○ Cross-checked reference — turbine make and model (secondary source)

REpower (now Senvion) · MM92 · 4 turbines · 2.05 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.

→ ~20322010201520202025today1234
  1. 1Mar 2007 — Application submitted
  2. 2Aug 2007 — Permission granted
  3. 3Oct 2009 — Under construction
  4. 4Mar 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 3504.

What the register tells us

The application was determined in about 5 months. Construction to first power took about 5 months. The scheme has been operating for about 16 years. That works out at 2.05 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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