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 manufacturernot recorded
Turbine modelnot recorded

♻️ Project timeline

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

1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 Project timeline Permission expired October 2000 Application submitted July 2004 Permission granted October 2006 Under construction August 2010 Operational October 2010

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.