🌬️ Onshore wind farm

Great Orton Wind Farm (Extension)
Cumbria

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

6
turbines
4 MW
MW total
0.66 MW
per turbine

📍 6 turbines mapped — each dot is a turbine recorded in the database. Average position: 54.87441 N · 3.05955 W.

Great Orton Wind Farm (Extension)

6 turbines · operational · Cumbria

Wind farm facts

StatusOperational
County / regionCumbria
Turbines6
Installed capacity4 MW
Turbine capacity0.66 MW
Tip heightnot recorded
Operator (or applicant)Cumbria Wind Farms
Turbine manufacturernot recorded
Turbine modelnot recorded
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♻️ Project timeline

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

~2022 reached200020052010201520202025today123
  1. 1Feb 1998 — Application submitted
  2. 2Jun 1998 — Permission granted
  3. 3Feb 2000 — Operational

DevelopmentConstructionOperationAhead (repowering horizon at 22 years)

From application to operation, this scheme took about 1 year.

The register links a second scheme on this site (REPD ref 2613, Operational): 6 turbines · 0.4 MW each · applicant Great Orton Wind Farms (II) Ltd. Two schemes on one site usually mean a repowering or an extension — to be confirmed with the operator.

Source: Renewable Energy Planning Database, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Open Government Licence v3.0. REPD ref 3491.

What the register tells us

The application was determined in about 16 months. The scheme has been operating for about 27 years. At that age, wind farms commonly become candidates for repowering or life extension — nothing in the register confirms such a plan here. That works out at 0.67 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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