Middlewick wind farm

9 turbines · operational · Essex

Wind farm facts

StatusOperational
County / regionEssex
Turbines9
Installed capacity20.7 MW
Turbine capacity2.3 MW
Tip heightnot recorded
Operator (or applicant)Blue Energy (formerly Ridgewind Ltd)
Turbine manufacturerSiemens Gamesa
Turbine modelnot recorded

♻️ Project timeline

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

2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 Project timeline Application submitted January 2010 Permission expired May 2010 Refused August 2010 Permission granted May 2011 Granted on appeal May 2011 Under construction June 2013 Operational July 2014

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 4662.

What the register tells us

The application was determined in about 16 months. Construction to first power took about 13 months. The register records a refusal in August 2010 before the scheme progressed. Permission was ultimately granted on appeal in May 2011. A planning permission on this site expired in May 2010. The scheme has been operating for about 12 years. That works out at 2.3 MW per turbine on average.