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 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 March 2007 Permission granted August 2007 Under construction October 2009 Operational March 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 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.