Green Rigg

18 turbines · operational · Northumberland

Wind farm facts

StatusOperational
County / regionNorthumberland
Turbines18
Installed capacity36 MW
Turbine capacity2 MW
Tip heightnot recorded
Operator (or applicant)EDF/China General Nuclear Power Corporation
Turbine manufacturernot recorded
Turbine modelnot recorded

♻️ Project timeline

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

1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 Project timeline Permission expired March 2000 Application submitted January 2006 Refused January 2008 Permission granted March 2010 Granted on appeal March 2010 Under construction December 2011 Operational November 2012

From application to operation, this scheme took about 6 years.

Source: Renewable Energy Planning Database, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Open Government Licence v3.0. REPD ref 4044.

What the register tells us

The application was determined in about 50 months. Construction to first power took about 11 months. The register records a refusal in January 2008 before the scheme progressed. Permission was ultimately granted on appeal in March 2010. A planning permission on this site expired in March 2000. The scheme has been operating for about 14 years. That works out at 2 MW per turbine on average.

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