South Sharpley Wind Farm (Revised)

3 turbines · operational · County Durham

Wind farm facts

StatusOperational
County / regionCounty Durham
Turbines3
Installed capacity7.5 MW
Turbine capacity2.5 MW
Tip heightnot recorded
Operator (or applicant)REG Windpower (previously Cornwall Light & Power)
Turbine manufacturernot recorded
Turbine modelnot recorded

♻️ Project timeline

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

2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 Project timeline Application submitted May 2008 Refused December 2009 Permission expired April 2010 Permission granted April 2011 Granted on appeal April 2011 Under construction June 2012 Operational January 2013

From application to operation, this scheme took about 5 years.

Source: Renewable Energy Planning Database, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Open Government Licence v3.0. REPD ref 3985.

What the register tells us

The application was determined in about 35 months. Construction to first power took about 7 months. The register records a refusal in December 2009 before the scheme progressed. Permission was ultimately granted on appeal in April 2011. A planning permission on this site expired in April 2010. The scheme has been operating for about 13 years. That works out at 2.5 MW per turbine on average.

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