Airfield Poddington
Airfield Poddington is a 8.55 MW onshore wind farm in East of England, England, operated by Capital Dynamics UK. The UK government lists it as operational in its register of power stations (DUKES table 5.11, May 2025).
- Onshore
- East of England
- England
Key facts
- Installed capacity
- 8.55 MW
- Status
- Operational
- Technology
- Wind Β· Onshore
- Operator
- Capital Dynamics UK
- Region
- East of England
- Country
- England
- Grid connection (DUKES)
- LV
- Combined heat & power
- No
- Postcode
- NN29 7JQ
- Coordinates
- 52.2363, -0.6089
Location
Map position from the published coordinates. For small sites this can be an approximate point rather than the exact boundary. Map Β© OpenStreetMap contributors.
How Airfield Poddington compares
At a typical UK load factor for this technology (about 26% of the maximum possible output), a 8.55 MW station would generate roughly 19 GWh of electricity in a year, similar to the annual use of about 7,210 homes at 2,700 kWh each. This is an illustrative estimate, not the station's metered output: real generation varies with weather, availability and grid constraints.
Wind farms turn the kinetic energy of the wind into electricity with turbines. Output varies with wind speed. Offshore sites usually see stronger, steadier winds than onshore sites and so generate more per MW of capacity.
All UK wind farms Wind farms in East of England All run by Capital Dynamics UKNearby generating sites
- Corby Power Station Β· 407 MW CCGT gas power station9.1 km
- Hyde Farm Β· 4.94 MW solar farm9.3 km
- Clapham Β· 4.98 MW solar farm10.8 km
- Milton Keynes Β· 14 MW onshore wind farm12.7 km
- Burton Wold South (GB) Β· 8.25 MW onshore wind farm13.4 km
- Burton Wold Β· 5.95 MW onshore wind farm14.0 km
- Salcey Farm Β· 5.46 MW solar farm14.2 km
- Burton Wold Β· 14.4 MW onshore wind farm14.2 km
Also operated by Capital Dynamics UK
Capital Dynamics UK operates 25 sites in the register. Largest first:
Planning history
From the government's Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD), matched to this site by location, capacity and name.
- Planning status
- Operational
- Site name in planning record
- Airfield Farm (Podington)
- Developer / operator
- Airvolution Energy
- Planning authority
- Bedford
- Planning reference
- 08/02692/MAF
- Application submitted
- 25 September 2008
- Permission granted
- 21 August 2012
- Construction started
- 15 July 2016
- Began operating
- 15 February 2017
- Capacity in planning record
- 8.6 MW
- Address
- Airfield Farm, adjacent to Santa Pod raceway, Podington, Wellingborough, Bedfordshire, NN29 7XA
- REPD reference
- 4116
Source
Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ), Digest of UK Energy Statistics (DUKES), table 5.11: power stations in the United Kingdom β operational at end of May 2025.
Capacity is installed capacity as published, not current output. Status reflects the source date, not live operation.
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Last checked by Octary: 15 July 2026
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