🌬️ Onshore wind farm

Ray Wind Farm
Northumberland

Recorded in WhichWindTurbine: 16 wind turbines in operation. Point the app at one of them to see its profile in real time.

16
turbines
54.4 MW
MW total
3.5 MW
per turbine

📍 16 turbines mapped — each dot is a turbine recorded in the database. Average position: 55.17178 N · 2.07409 W.

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 manufacturerSenvion
Turbine model3.4M104
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✓ Verified reference — turbine make and model

Senvion · 3.4M104 · 16 turbines · 3.4 MW each · rotor 104 m

Source: Senvion, Vattenfall contract press release (October 2015), 2015-10, read on 2026-09-15. Corroborated by 3 further sources. Where OpenStreetMap tags differ, this record prevails.

♻️ Project timeline

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

→ ~20392010201520202025today12345
  1. 1Dec 2005 — Application submitted
  2. 2Nov 2010 — Permission granted
  3. 3Nov 2012 — Permission expired
  4. 4Jul 2015 — Under construction
  5. 5Feb 2017 — Operational

DevelopmentConstructionOperationAhead (repowering horizon at 22 years)

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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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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