Bristol Port
Bristol Port is a 6 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 MW
- Status
- Operational
- Technology
- Wind Β· Onshore
- Operator
- Ecotricity
- Region
- South West
- Country
- England
- Grid connection (DUKES)
- LV
- Combined heat & power
- No
- Postcode
- BS11 9DQ
- Coordinates
- 51.5119, -2.7088
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 Bristol Port compares
At a typical UK load factor for this technology (about 26% of the maximum possible output), a 6 MW station would generate roughly 14 GWh of electricity in a year, similar to the annual use of about 5,060 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
- Seabank Power Station Β· 1,234 MW power station4.2 km
- Severn Beach Β· 3.96 MW solar farm6.5 km
- Sudbrook Β· 5 MW solar farm8.4 km
- Oakham Β· 4.64 MW solar farm9.6 km
- Rolls Royce Β· 3.2 MW solar farm9.6 km
- Bristol Water Β· 0.8 MW solar farm12.3 km
- Grange Farm Β· 21.1 MW solar farm13.3 km
- Rhewl 1 Β· 3.04 MW solar farm13.7 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
- Avonmouth Port
- Developer / operator
- Bristol Port Authority
- Planning authority
- Bristol, City of
- Planning reference
- 05/03131/F
- Application submitted
- 8 August 2005
- Permission granted
- 16 December 2005
- Began operating
- 20 August 2007
- Capacity in planning record
- 6 MW
- Address
- Avonmouth Port, Avon
- REPD reference
- 3194
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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