Onshore wind · United Kingdom
French Farm
Operational4 MWChecked 6 October 2026Last changed in the dataset 16 December 2016
The site
- Technology
- Onshore wind
- Capacity
- 4 MW
- Status
- Operational
- Operator or applicant
- REG Windpower (previously Cornwall Light and Power)
- Location
- French Farm, French Drove, Thorney, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
- Planning authority
- Peterborough
- Planning application
- 08/01365/FUL
- Appeal reference
- APP/J5400/A/09/2116682
- First operating
- 2016
- Turbines
- 2
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Timeline
- 6 November 2008 Planning application submitted
- 10 July 2009 Planning permission refused
- 10 September 2010 Planning permission granted
- 10 September 2010 Appeal granted
- 26 May 2016 Construction started
- 24 November 2016 Operational
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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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