Cotton Farm
Cotton Farm is a 16.4 MW onshore wind farm in East of England, 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 of England
- England
Key facts
- Installed capacity
- 16.4 MW
- Status
- Operational
- Technology
- Wind Β· Onshore
- Operator
- Greencoat Capital
- Region
- East of England
- Country
- England
- Grid connection (DUKES)
- LV
- Combined heat & power
- No
- Coordinates
- 52.2615, -0.1952
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 Cotton Farm 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 of England All run by Greencoat CapitalNearby generating sites
- Caldecote Β· 4.98 MW solar farm5.7 km
- Red Tile Β· 24 MW onshore wind farm7.8 km
- Little Barford GT Β· 17 MW oil-fired power station8.4 km
- Little Barford Β· 735 MW CCGT gas power station8.4 km
- Skylark Β· 4.94 MW solar farm10.7 km
- Woolley Hill (GB) Β· 10 MW onshore wind farm11.6 km
- Wiggin Hill Β· 11.4 MW solar farm11.9 km
- Abbots Ripton Β· 24.7 MW solar farm13.0 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 Wind
- Planning authority
- Huntingdonshire
- Planning reference
- 0802296FUL
- Application submitted
- 4 August 2008
- Permission granted
- 14 December 2010
- Construction started
- 1 May 2012
- Began operating
- 31 March 2013
- Capacity in planning record
- 20 MW
- Address
- Land between Graveley, Offord Darcy and Great Paxton, Cambridgeshire
- REPD reference
- 3971
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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