The Low Carbon Energy Generation Project at Keele University

2 turbines · operational · Staffordshire

Wind farm facts

StatusOperational
County / regionStaffordshire
Turbines2
Installed capacity1.9 MW
Turbine capacitynot recorded
Tip height77 m
Operator (or applicant)Keele University
Turbine manufacturernot recorded
Turbine modelnot recorded

♻️ Project timeline

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

2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 Project timeline Permission expired May 2010 Application submitted December 2018 Permission granted May 2019 Under construction December 2020 Operational September 2021

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 7312.

What the register tells us

The application was determined in about 5 months. Construction to first power took about 9 months. A planning permission on this site expired in May 2010. The scheme has been operating for about 5 years. That works out at 0.95 MW per turbine on average.