East Youlstone
East Youlstone is a 4 MW onshore wind farm in South West 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
- South West
- England
Key facts
- Installed capacity
- 4 MW
- Status
- Operational
- Technology
- Wind Β· Onshore
- Operator
- Capital Dynamics UK
- Region
- South West
- Country
- England
- Grid connection (DUKES)
- LV
- Combined heat & power
- No
- Postcode
- EX23 9PU
- Coordinates
- 50.9145, -4.4537
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 East Youlstone 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.
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- Bulkworthy Solar Β· 6.24 MW solar farm12.9 km
- Great Knowles Β· 2.92 MW solar farm13.4 km
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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
- East Youlstone Wind Farm
- Developer / operator
- Airvolution Energy
- Planning authority
- Torridge
- Planning reference
- 1/0311/2011/FULM
- Application submitted
- 4 April 2011
- Permission granted
- 9 November 2012
- Construction started
- 24 July 2014
- Began operating
- 15 February 2015
- Capacity in planning record
- 4 MW
- Address
- East Youlstone, Devon, Devon
- REPD reference
- 4168
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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