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

♻️ 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 Project timeline Permission expired February 2010 Application submitted June 2011 Refused October 2011 Permission granted February 2014 Granted on appeal February 2014 Under construction October 2015 Operational December 2016

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.