Ryder Point Quarry Wind Turbines

2 turbines · operational · Derbyshire

Wind farm facts

StatusOperational
County / regionDerbyshire
Turbines2
Installed capacity5 MW
Turbine capacity2.5 MW
Tip heightnot recorded
Operator (or applicant)Longcliffe Quarries
Turbine manufacturernot recorded
Turbine modelnot recorded

♻️ Project timeline

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

2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 Project timeline Permission expired July 2011 Application submitted November 2012 Permission granted July 2013 Under construction April 2015 Operational December 2015

From application to operation, this scheme took about 3 years.

Source: Renewable Energy Planning Database, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Open Government Licence v3.0. REPD ref 4206.

What the register tells us

The application was determined in about 8 months. Construction to first power took about 8 months. A planning permission on this site expired in July 2011. The scheme has been operating for about 11 years. That works out at 2.5 MW per turbine on average.