🌬️ Onshore wind farm

Turncole Wind Farm
Essex

Recorded in WhichWindTurbine: 7 wind turbines in operation. Point the app at one of them to see its profile in real time.

7
turbines
17.5 MW
MW total
2 MW
per turbine

📍 7 turbines mapped — each dot is a turbine recorded in the database. Average position: 51.64452 N · 0.87117 E.

Turncole Wind Farm

7 turbines · operational · Essex

Wind farm facts

StatusOperational
County / regionEssex
Turbines7
Installed capacity17.5 MW
Turbine capacity2 MW
Tip heightnot recorded
Operator (or applicant)RES/ Aviva
Turbine manufacturerSiemens Gamesa
Turbine modelnot recorded
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♻️ Project timeline

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

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  1. 1Jun 2011 — Application submitted
  2. 2Oct 2011 — Refused
  3. 3Feb 2014 — Permission granted
  4. 4Feb 2014 — Granted on appeal
  5. 5Oct 2015 — Under construction
  6. 6Dec 2016 — Operational

The register also records a planning permission expiry in Feb 2010, in the same month as, or before, the permission was granted: it refers to an earlier permission, left off the axis.

DevelopmentConstructionOperationAhead (repowering horizon at 22 years)

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 4067.

What the register tells us

The application was determined in about 32 months. Construction to first power took about 14 months. The register records a refusal in October 2011 before the scheme progressed. Permission was ultimately granted on appeal in February 2014. A planning permission on this site expired in February 2010. The scheme has been operating for about 10 years. That works out at 2.5 MW per turbine on average.

Sources and dates

DataSourceExtract
Site, capacity, status, planning milestonesRenewable Energy Planning Database (DESNZ, Open Government Licence v3)Q2 2026, published 03/08/2026
Turbine positionsOpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)19/08/2026
Manufacturer and modelOpenStreetMap tags, unverified — REPD does not record turbine models. Known for 41 % of UK turbines (manufacturer) and 32 % (model); some values are propagated within a site and may be wrong.19/08/2026

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