Garves
Garves is a 15 MW onshore wind farm in Northern Ireland, operated by WPO UK Services. 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
- WPO UK Services
- Region
- Northern Ireland
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Grid connection (DUKES)
- LV
- Combined heat & power
- No
- Coordinates
- 55.0018, -6.5649
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 Garves 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 WPO UK ServicesNearby generating sites
- Bann Road Β· 45.8 MW solar farm5.9 km
- Finvoy Β· 5.96 MW solar farm6.2 km
- Brockaghboy Β· 47.5 MW onshore wind farm12.7 km
- Corkey Β· 5 MW onshore wind farm18.3 km
- Altaveedan Β· 18 MW onshore wind farm19.9 km
- Rigged Hill Β· 5 MW onshore wind farm21.5 km
- Dunmore Β· 21 MW onshore wind farm22.0 km
- Brackagh Quarry Β· 5 MW onshore wind farm23.1 km
Also operated by WPO UK Services
WPO UK Services operates 38 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
- Garves Mountain Farm
- Developer / operator
- Gravis Capital Management
- Planning authority
- Causeway Coast and Glens
- Planning reference
- D/2003/0329/F
- Application submitted
- 11 June 2003
- Permission granted
- 20 November 2006
- Construction started
- 1 January 2009
- Began operating
- 1 January 2009
- Capacity in planning record
- 15 MW
- Address
- Garves Mountain Farm, Tullaghans Road (access adjacent to no. 91), Dunloy. Ballymoney, Co. Antrim
- REPD reference
- 3191
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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