High Hedley Hope 2 (Extension)

4 turbines · operational · County Durham

Wind farm facts

StatusOperational
County / regionCounty Durham
Turbines4
Installed capacity5.2 MW
Turbine capacity1.3 MW
Tip heightnot recorded
Operator (or applicant)EDF Energy
Turbine manufacturernot recorded
Turbine modelnot recorded

♻️ Project timeline

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

2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 Project timeline Application submitted August 2004 Permission granted July 2005 Operational June 2008 Permission expired July 2012

From application to operation, this scheme took about 4 years.

Source: Renewable Energy Planning Database, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Open Government Licence v3.0. REPD ref 3290.

What the register tells us

The application was determined in about 11 months. A planning permission on this site expired in July 2012. The scheme has been operating for about 18 years. That works out at 1.3 MW per turbine on average.

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