Bears Down
Bears Down is a 9.6 MW onshore wind farm in South West England, operated by Venitent Energy Services. 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
- 9.6 MW
- Status
- Operational
- Technology
- Wind Β· Onshore
- Operator
- Venitent Energy Services
- Region
- South West
- Country
- England
- Grid connection (DUKES)
- LV
- Combined heat & power
- No
- Postcode
- TR8 4RJ
- Coordinates
- 50.4703, -4.9556
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 Bears Down compares
At a typical UK load factor for this technology (about 26% of the maximum possible output), a 9.6 MW station would generate roughly 22 GWh of electricity in a year, similar to the annual use of about 8,100 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 Venitent Energy ServicesNearby generating sites
- Denzell Downs Windfarm Β· 10 MW onshore wind farm0.6 km
- Winnards Β· 4.45 MW solar farm2.7 km
- Penhale Β· 3.53 MW solar farm5.7 km
- St Breock Β· 10 MW onshore wind farm8.2 km
- Indian Queens Power Ltd Β· 140 MW oil-fired power station9.3 km
- Trefullock Β· 5 MW solar farm11.5 km
- Trevemper Β· 1.7 MW solar farm11.6 km
- Burthy Β· 13.1 MW solar farm12.0 km
Also operated by Venitent Energy Services
Venitent Energy Services operates 33 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
- Bears Down Wind Farm
- Developer / operator
- Natural Power
- Planning authority
- Cornwall
- Application submitted
- 15 May 2000
- Permission granted
- 27 June 2000
- Began operating
- 31 August 2001
- Capacity in planning record
- 9.8 MW
- Address
- Bears Down Reservoir St Colomb Cornwall, Cornwall
- REPD reference
- 3392
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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