Onshore wind · United Kingdom
Airfield Farm (Podington)
Operational8.6 MWChecked 6 October 2026Last changed in the dataset 19 April 2017
The site
- Technology
- Onshore wind
- Capacity
- 8.6 MW
- Status
- Operational
- Operator or applicant
- Airvolution Energy
- Location
- Airfield Farm, adjacent to Santa Pod raceway, Podington, Wellingborough, Bedfordshire, NN29 7XA, United Kingdom
- Planning authority
- Bedford
- Planning application
- 08/02692/MAF
- Appeal reference
- 09/00037/NONDET
- First operating
- 2017
- Turbines
- 3
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Timeline
- 25 September 2008 Planning application submitted
- 23 February 2010 Planning permission refused
- 21 August 2012 Planning permission granted
- 21 August 2012 Appeal granted
- 15 July 2016 Construction started
- 15 February 2017 Operational
Incidents on the register at this site
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Incidents at onshore wind farms in the United Kingdom
The register holds 54 incidents at onshore wind farms in the United Kingdom, 22 of them fires, and 297 worldwide. Counts of incidents in published reporting, not rates.
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