Kirkheaton Wind Farm

3 turbines · operational · Northumberland

Wind farm facts

StatusOperational
County / regionNorthumberland
Turbines3
Installed capacity1.8 MW
Turbine capacity0.6 MW
Tip heightnot recorded
Operator (or applicant)Border Wind Farms Ltd /AMEC
Turbine manufacturernot recorded
Turbine modelnot recorded

♻️ Project timeline

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

1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 Project timeline Application submitted November 1997 Refused January 1999 Permission granted January 1999 Granted on appeal January 1999 Operational May 2000

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 2587.

What the register tells us

The application was determined in about 14 months. The register records a refusal in January 1999 before the scheme progressed. Permission was ultimately granted on appeal in January 1999. The scheme has been operating for about 26 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 0.6 MW per turbine on average.

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