Alveston
Alveston is a 6.9 MW onshore wind farm in South West England, operated by Ecotricity. The UK government lists it as operational in its register of power stations (DUKES table 5.11, May 2025).
- Onshore
- South West
- England
Key facts
- Installed capacity
- 6.9 MW
- Status
- Operational
- Technology
- Wind Β· Onshore
- Operator
- Ecotricity
- Region
- South West
- Country
- England
- Grid connection (DUKES)
- LV
- Combined heat & power
- No
- Postcode
- BS35 3TD
- Coordinates
- 51.5723, -2.4999
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 Alveston compares
At a typical UK load factor for this technology (about 26% of the maximum possible output), a 6.9 MW station would generate roughly 16 GWh of electricity in a year, similar to the annual use of about 5,820 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 South West All run by EcotricityNearby generating sites
- Grange Farm Β· 21.1 MW solar farm4.0 km
- Says Court Β· 19.8 MW solar farm5.5 km
- Oakham Β· 4.64 MW solar farm6.3 km
- Rolls Royce Β· 3.2 MW solar farm7.2 km
- Oldbury Nuclear Power Station Β· 434 MW nuclear power station9.9 km
- Severn Beach Β· 3.96 MW solar farm10.9 km
- Upper Wick Β· 5 MW solar farm11.5 km
- Seabank Power Station Β· 1,234 MW power station12.1 km
Also operated by Ecotricity
Ecotricity 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
- Alveston Wind Park
- Developer / operator
- Ecotricity
- Planning authority
- South Gloucestershire
- Planning reference
- PT08/1658/F
- Application submitted
- 2 June 2008
- Permission granted
- 13 November 2008
- Construction started
- 8 October 2015
- Began operating
- 7 December 2017
- Capacity in planning record
- 6.9 MW
- Address
- Land off Old Gloucester Road, Nr Alveston, South Gloucestershire, Avon, BS35 3TD
- REPD reference
- 4335
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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