Knabs Ridge Windfarm

8 turbines · operational · North Yorkshire

Wind farm facts

StatusOperational
County / regionNorth Yorkshire
Turbines8
Installed capacity16 MW
Turbine capacity2 MW
Tip heightnot recorded
Operator (or applicant)RWE npower
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 2014 Project timeline Application submitted April 2004 Permission granted November 2004 Under construction March 2007 Operational April 2008 Permission expired November 2013

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 3147.

What the register tells us

The application was determined in about 7 months. Construction to first power took about 13 months. A planning permission on this site expired in November 2013. The scheme has been operating for about 18 years. That works out at 2 MW per turbine on average.