Bishopthorpe
Bishopthorpe is a 16.4 MW onshore wind farm in East Midlands England, operated by Greencoat Capital. The UK government lists it as operational in its register of power stations (DUKES table 5.11, May 2025).
- Onshore
- East Midlands
- England
Key facts
- Installed capacity
- 16.4 MW
- Status
- Operational
- Technology
- Wind Β· Onshore
- Operator
- Greencoat Capital
- Region
- East Midlands
- Country
- England
- Grid connection (DUKES)
- LV
- Combined heat & power
- No
- Coordinates
- 53.5099, -0.0007
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 Bishopthorpe compares
At a typical UK load factor for this technology (about 26% of the maximum possible output), a 16.4 MW station would generate roughly 37 GWh of electricity in a year, similar to the annual use of about 13,830 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 Midlands All run by Greencoat CapitalNearby generating sites
- Humber Gateway Β· 219 MW offshore wind farm8.9 km
- Laceby CIC1 Β· 5 MW solar farm10.0 km
- Laceby CIC2 Β· 5 MW solar farm10.0 km
- Grimsby Β· 40 MW open-cycle gas power station10.5 km
- Fen Farm Solar Β· 0.9 MW solar farm10.7 km
- Fen Farm Β· 16 MW onshore wind farm10.7 km
- Triton Knoll Β· 857 MW offshore wind farm10.8 km
- Yarburgh Β· 8.09 MW solar farm11.5 km
Also operated by Greencoat Capital
Greencoat Capital operates 195 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
- Developer / operator
- Greencoat UK (formerly BayWa r.e.)
- Planning authority
- East Lindsey
- Planning reference
- N/178/01969/12
- Application submitted
- 2 October 2012
- Permission granted
- 20 March 2015
- Construction started
- 25 January 2016
- Began operating
- 30 January 2017
- Capacity in planning record
- 16.4 MW
- Address
- Bishopthorpe Farm, Bishopthorpe, Tetney, Grimsby, Humberside, Lincolnshire
- REPD reference
- 4256
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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