Ray Wind Farm

16 turbines · operational · Northumberland

Wind farm facts

StatusOperational
County / regionNorthumberland
Turbines16
Installed capacity54.4 MW
Turbine capacity3.5 MW
Tip heightnot recorded
Operator (or applicant)Vattenfall
Turbine manufacturernot recorded
Turbine modelnot recorded

♻️ Project timeline

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

2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 Project timeline Application submitted December 2005 Permission granted November 2010 Permission expired November 2012 Under construction July 2015 Operational February 2017

From application to operation, this scheme took about 12 years.

Source: Renewable Energy Planning Database, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Open Government Licence v3.0. REPD ref 4026.

What the register tells us

The application was determined in about 59 months. Construction to first power took about 19 months. A planning permission on this site expired in November 2012. The scheme has been operating for about 9 years. That works out at 3.4 MW per turbine on average.

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