Frodsham Wind Farm
Frodsham Wind Farm is a 50.4 MW onshore wind farm in North West England, operated by Foresight Group. The UK government lists it as operational in its register of power stations (DUKES table 5.11, May 2025).
- Onshore
- North West
- England
Key facts
- Installed capacity
- 50.4 MW
- Status
- Operational
- Technology
- Wind Β· Onshore
- Operator
- Foresight Group
- Region
- North West
- Country
- England
- Grid connection (DUKES)
- LV
- Combined heat & power
- No
- Postcode
- CH2 4LB
- Coordinates
- 53.2830, -2.7719
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 Frodsham Wind Farm compares
At a typical UK load factor for this technology (about 26% of the maximum possible output), a 50.4 MW station would generate roughly 115 GWh of electricity in a year, similar to the annual use of about 42,470 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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Also operated by Foresight Group
Foresight Group operates 4 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
- Frodsham Marsh
- Developer / operator
- Foresight/Belltown
- Planning authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Application submitted
- 25 February 2010
- Permission granted
- 19 October 2012
- Construction started
- 6 August 2015
- Began operating
- 15 November 2016
- Capacity in planning record
- 50.4 MW
- Address
- Land between Manchester Ship Canal and M56, Cheshire
- REPD reference
- 3694
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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