South Beach Wind Turbine (Somerton)

1 turbines · operational · Norfolk

Wind farm facts

StatusOperational
County / regionNorfolk
Turbines1
Installed capacity1.5 MW
Turbine capacity1.47 MW
Tip heightnot recorded
Operator (or applicant)Ecotricity
Turbine manufacturernot recorded
Turbine modelnot recorded

♻️ Project timeline

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

1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 Project timeline Application submitted May 1999 Permission granted April 2000 Operational July 2000 Permission expired April 2011

From application to operation, this scheme took about 1 year.

Source: Renewable Energy Planning Database, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Open Government Licence v3.0. REPD ref 2555.

What the register tells us

The application was determined in about 11 months. A planning permission on this site expired in April 2011. The scheme has been operating for about 26 years. At that age, wind farms commonly become candidates for repowering or life extension — nothing in the register confirms such a plan here. That works out at 1.5 MW per turbine on average.

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