Lowca Wind Farm

7 turbines · operational · Cumbria

Wind farm facts

StatusOperational
County / regionCumbria
Turbines7
Installed capacity4.7 MW
Turbine capacity0.67 MW
Tip heightnot recorded
Operator (or applicant)Windprospect
Turbine manufacturernot recorded
Turbine modelnot recorded

♻️ Project timeline

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

1997 1999 2001 2003 2005 2007 2009 2011 2013 2015 2017 Project timeline Application submitted June 1998 Refused October 1998 Permission granted March 1999 Granted on appeal March 1999 Operational April 2000 Permission expired March 2016

From application to operation, this scheme took about 2 years.

Source: Renewable Energy Planning Database, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Open Government Licence v3.0. REPD ref 3611.

What the register tells us

The application was determined in about 9 months. The register records a refusal in October 1998 before the scheme progressed. Permission was ultimately granted on appeal in March 1999. A planning permission on this site expired in March 2016. 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 0.67 MW per turbine on average.

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