Crockandun
Crockandun is a 15 MW onshore wind farm in Northern Ireland, operated by Capital Dynamics UK. The UK government lists it as operational in its register of power stations (DUKES table 5.11, May 2025).
- Onshore
- Northern Ireland
Key facts
- Installed capacity
- 15 MW
- Status
- Operational
- Technology
- Wind Β· Onshore
- Operator
- Capital Dynamics UK
- Region
- Northern Ireland
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Grid connection (DUKES)
- LV
- Combined heat & power
- No
- Postcode
- BT80 9UA
- Coordinates
- 54.7605, -6.7270
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 Crockandun compares
At a typical UK load factor for this technology (about 26% of the maximum possible output), a 15 MW station would generate roughly 34 GWh of electricity in a year, similar to the annual use of about 12,650 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 Northern Ireland All run by Capital Dynamics UKNearby generating sites
- Brackagh Quarry Β· 5 MW onshore wind farm5.8 km
- Dale Farm Β· 5 MW solar farm11.7 km
- Brockaghboy Β· 47.5 MW onshore wind farm20.9 km
- Bann Road Β· 45.8 MW solar farm26.0 km
- Finvoy Β· 5.96 MW solar farm27.1 km
- Garves Β· 15 MW onshore wind farm28.8 km
- Altahullion Wind Farm (NI) Β· 26 MW onshore wind farm29.5 km
- Altahullion Extension Wind Farm (NI) Β· 11.7 MW onshore wind farm29.5 km
Also operated by Capital Dynamics UK
Capital Dynamics UK 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
- Developer / operator
- Brookfield Renewable Energy Group
- Planning authority
- Mid Ulster
- Planning reference
- H/2010/0009/F
- Application submitted
- 8 January 2010
- Permission granted
- 30 November 2012
- Construction started
- 15 January 2016
- Began operating
- 9 March 2017
- Capacity in planning record
- 15 MW
- Address
- approximately 450m west south-west of junction of Cullion Road and Drumard Road, Draperstown, Magherafelt., Co. Derry / Londonderry, BT45 5NR
- REPD reference
- 4156
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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