Little Belhus Restoration Site

2 turbines · operational · Essex

Wind farm facts

StatusOperational
County / regionEssex
Turbines2
Installed capacity1 MW
Turbine capacity0.5 MW
Tip height77 m
Operator (or applicant)Constantine Wind Energy
Turbine manufacturernot recorded
Turbine modelnot recorded

♻️ Project timeline

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

2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 Project timeline Application submitted November 2013 Permission granted May 2015 Under construction July 2016 Operational September 2016 Permission expired May 2018

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 3437.

What the register tells us

The application was determined in about 18 months. Construction to first power took about 2 months. A planning permission on this site expired in May 2018. The scheme has been operating for about 10 years. That works out at 0.5 MW per turbine on average.