Daintree
Daintree is a 4 MW onshore wind farm in East Midlands England, 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
- East Midlands
- England
Key facts
- Installed capacity
- 4 MW
- Status
- Operational
- Technology
- Wind Β· Onshore
- Operator
- Capital Dynamics UK
- Region
- East Midlands
- Country
- England
- Grid connection (DUKES)
- LV
- Combined heat & power
- No
- Postcode
- NN6 7GW
- Coordinates
- 52.3453, -1.1567
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 Daintree compares
At a typical UK load factor for this technology (about 26% of the maximum possible output), a 4 MW station would generate roughly 9.1 GWh of electricity in a year, similar to the annual use of about 3,370 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 Capital Dynamics UKNearby generating sites
- Yelvertoft Β· 16.4 MW onshore wind farm3.3 km
- Watford Lodge Β· 10.3 MW onshore wind farm4.0 km
- Winwick Β· 12.3 MW onshore wind farm7.1 km
- Swinford Β· 22 MW onshore wind farm7.4 km
- Whilton Β· 0.33 MW solar farm8.7 km
- Streetfield Β· 50 MW solar farm12.5 km
- Kelmarsh Β· 12.3 MW onshore wind farm16.0 km
- Low Spinney Β· 8.2 MW onshore wind farm17.5 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
- Site name in planning record
- M1 J18 Wind Turbines
- Developer / operator
- Airvolution Energy
- Planning authority
- West Northamptonshire
- Planning reference
- DA/2011/0742
- Application submitted
- 9 September 2011
- Permission granted
- 12 February 2013
- Construction started
- 7 July 2014
- Began operating
- 15 December 2014
- Capacity in planning record
- 4 MW
- Address
- Land Between Watling Street And M1, Celtic Way, Kilsby, Northamptonshire, Northamptonshire
- REPD reference
- 4598
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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