🌬️ Onshore wind farm

Rusholme Wind Farm
North Yorkshire

Recorded in WhichWindTurbine: 12 wind turbines in operation. Point the app at one of them to see its profile in real time.

12
turbines
24 MW
MW total
2 MW
per turbine

📍 12 turbines mapped — each dot is a turbine recorded in the database. Average position: 53.72647 N · 0.9286 W.

Rusholme Wind Farm

12 turbines · operational · North Yorkshire

Wind farm facts

StatusOperational
County / regionNorth Yorkshire
Turbines12
Installed capacity24 MW
Turbine capacity2 MW
Tip heightnot recorded
Operator (or applicant)EDF/China General Nuclear Power Corporation
Turbine manufacturerREpower (now Senvion) (secondary source)
Turbine modelMM82 (secondary source)
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○ Cross-checked reference — turbine make and model (secondary source)

REpower (now Senvion) · MM82 · 12 turbines · 2 MW each

Source: Wikipedia, list of onshore wind farms in the United Kingdom (compiled from 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.

→ ~203320052010201520202025today1234
  1. 1Jul 2004 — Application submitted
  2. 2Oct 2006 — Permission granted
  3. 3Aug 2010 — Under construction
  4. 4Oct 2010 — Operational

The register also records a planning permission expiry in Oct 2000, in the same month as, or before, the permission was granted: it refers to an earlier permission, left off the axis.

DevelopmentConstructionOperationAhead (repowering horizon at 22 years)

From application to operation, this scheme took about 6 years.

Source: Renewable Energy Planning Database, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Open Government Licence v3.0. REPD ref 3602.

What the register tells us

The application was determined in about 27 months. Construction to first power took about 2 months. A planning permission on this site expired in October 2000. The scheme has been operating for about 16 years. That works out at 2 MW per turbine on average.

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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