Kirkby Moor

12 turbines · operational · Cumbria

Wind farm facts

StatusOperational
County / regionCumbria
Turbines12
Installed capacity4.8 MW
Turbine capacity0.4 MW
Tip heightnot recorded
Operator (or applicant)Npower Renewables
Turbine manufacturernot recorded
Turbine modelnot recorded

♻️ Project timeline

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

1992 1995 1998 2001 2004 2007 2010 2013 2016 2019 Scheme REPD 2713 Operational January 1993 Application submitted December 2014 Permission granted June 2017 Permission expired June 2019 Scheme REPD 3637 Application submitted February 2015 Refused November 2015

The register links a second scheme on this site (REPD ref 3637, Application Refused): 6 turbines · 3 MW each · 115 m tip height · applicant RWE Renewables. 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 2713.

What the register tells us

The application was determined in about 30 months. A planning permission on this site expired in June 2019. The scheme has been operating for about 33 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 0.4 MW per turbine on average.

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