🌬️ Onshore wind farm

Oldside Wind Farm
Cumbria

Recorded in WhichWindTurbine: 9 wind turbines in operation. Point the app at one of them to see its profile in real time.

9
turbines
5.4 MW
MW total
0.6 MW
per turbine

📍 9 turbines mapped — each dot is a turbine recorded in the database. Average position: 54.65705 N · 3.56174 W.

Oldside Wind Farm

9 turbines · operational · Cumbria

Wind farm facts

StatusOperational
County / regionCumbria
Turbines9
Installed capacity5.4 MW
Turbine capacity0.6 MW
Tip heightnot recorded
Operator (or applicant)Windprospect / Windcluster
Turbine manufacturerVestas (secondary source)
Turbine modelV42 (secondary source)
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Vestas · V42 · 9 turbines · 0.6 MW each

Source: Wikipedia, list of onshore wind farms in England (compiled from RenewableUK's UKWED and The Wind Power), read on 2026-09-19. This is a compiled list, not a primary record. It is shown because two independent facts — turbine count and rated power — match the database exactly. Awaiting confirmation from a primary source.

♻️ Project timeline

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

~2019 reached200020052010201520202025today123
  1. 1Oct 1995 — Application submitted
  2. 2Jan 1996 — Permission granted
  3. 3Sep 1996 — Operational

The register also records a planning permission expiry in Jan 2011, after commissioning: an administrative date with no effect on the operating wind farm, left off the axis.

DevelopmentConstructionOperationAhead (repowering horizon at 22 years)

From application to operation, this scheme took about 1 year.

Source: Renewable Energy Planning Database, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Open Government Licence v3.0. REPD ref 2625.

What the register tells us

The application was determined in about 3 months. A planning permission on this site expired in January 2011. The scheme has been operating for about 30 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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Sources and dates

DataSourceExtract
Site, capacity, status, planning milestonesRenewable Energy Planning Database (DESNZ, Open Government Licence v3)Q2 2026, published 03/08/2026
Turbine positionsOpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)19/08/2026
Manufacturer and modelOpenStreetMap tags, unverified — REPD does not record turbine models. Known for 41 % of UK turbines (manufacturer) and 32 % (model); some values are propagated within a site and may be wrong.19/08/2026

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