Swinford Wind Farm

11 turbines · operational · Leicestershire

Wind farm facts

StatusOperational
County / regionLeicestershire
Turbines11
Installed capacity22 MW
Turbine capacity2 MW
Tip heightnot recorded
Operator (or applicant)Nuon UK
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 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Project timeline Application submitted April 2008 Refused September 2009 Permission granted December 2009 Granted on appeal December 2009 Under construction December 2011 Operational November 2012 Permission expired December 2019

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 3685.

What the register tells us

The application was determined in about 20 months. Construction to first power took about 11 months. The register records a refusal in September 2009 before the scheme progressed. Permission was ultimately granted on appeal in December 2009. A planning permission on this site expired in December 2019. The scheme has been operating for about 14 years. That works out at 2 MW per turbine on average.