Southern Law

4 turbines · operational · County Durham

Wind farm facts

StatusOperational
County / regionCounty Durham
Turbines4
Installed capacity5.2 MW
Turbine capacity1.3 MW
Tip heightnot recorded
Operator (or applicant)EDF Energy
Turbine manufacturernot recorded
Turbine modelnot recorded

♻️ Project timeline

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

2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 Project timeline Application submitted August 2004 Permission granted July 2005 Under construction September 2007 Operational July 2008 Permission expired July 2013

From application to operation, this scheme took about 4 years.

Source: Renewable Energy Planning Database, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Open Government Licence v3.0. REPD ref 3223.

What the register tells us

The application was determined in about 11 months. Construction to first power took about 10 months. A planning permission on this site expired in July 2013. The scheme has been operating for about 18 years. That works out at 1.3 MW per turbine on average.

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