Port of Sheerness Wind Farm (was Lappel Bank)

4 turbines · operational · Kent

Wind farm facts

StatusOperational
County / regionKent
Turbines4
Installed capacity8.2 MW
Turbine capacity2.05 MW
Tip height125 m
Operator (or applicant)Peel Energy
Turbine manufacturernot recorded
Turbine modelnot recorded

♻️ Project timeline

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

2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 Project timeline Application submitted August 2008 Permission granted March 2009 Under construction August 2015 Permission expired March 2016 Operational September 2016

From application to operation, this scheme took about 8 years.

Source: Renewable Energy Planning Database, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Open Government Licence v3.0. REPD ref 3738.

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 March 2016. The scheme has been operating for about 10 years. That works out at 2.05 MW per turbine on average.