West Durham Wind Farm

12 turbines · operational · County Durham

Wind farm facts

StatusOperational
County / regionCounty Durham
Turbines12
Installed capacity24 MW
Turbine capacity2 MW
Tip heightnot recorded
Operator (or applicant)ESBI
Turbine manufacturerNordex
Turbine modelN50

♻️ Project timeline

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

2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 Project timeline Application submitted January 2005 Permission granted December 2005 Operational May 2009 Permission expired December 2011

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 2955.

What the register tells us

The application was determined in about 11 months. A planning permission on this site expired in December 2011. The scheme has been operating for about 17 years. That works out at 2 MW per turbine on average.

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