Orchard End Windfarm
Orchard End Windfarm is a 4 MW onshore wind farm in North West England, operated by RES 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
- 4 MW
- Status
- Operational
- Technology
- Wind Β· Onshore
- Operator
- RES Group
- Region
- North West
- Country
- England
- Grid connection (DUKES)
- LV
- Combined heat & power
- No
- Postcode
- PR3 6BA
- Coordinates
- 53.9001, -2.8657
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 Orchard End Windfarm 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 North West All run by RES GroupNearby generating sites
- West Field Β· 4.94 MW solar farm7.3 km
- Bilsborrow Β· 4.99 MW solar farm9.2 km
- Staining Wood Β· 5 MW solar farm14.1 km
- Arnawood Β· 4.99 MW solar farm14.6 km
- Wrea Green Β· 4.88 MW solar farm14.7 km
- Heysham South Wind Farm Β· 7.5 MW onshore wind farm16.0 km
- Heysham 1 Β· 1,060 MW nuclear power station16.3 km
- Heysham 2 Β· 1,240 MW nuclear power station16.3 km
Also operated by RES Group
RES Group operates 98 sites in the register. Largest first:
- Beinneun Wind Farm Β· onshore wind farm109 MW
- Cumberhead Wind Farm Β· onshore wind farm50 MW
- Hill of Towie Wind Farm (GB) Β· onshore wind farm48.3 MW
- Crossdykes Wind Farm Β· onshore wind farm48 MW
- Blary Hill Β· onshore wind farm35 MW
- Tormywheel Β· onshore wind farm30.8 MW
- Garreg Llwyd (GB) Β· onshore wind farm30.4 MW
- Solwaybank Β· onshore wind farm30.4 MW
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
- Orchard End
- Developer / operator
- Renewable Energy Generation
- Planning authority
- Wyre
- Planning reference
- 09/00352/FULMAJ
- Application submitted
- 12 May 2009
- Permission granted
- 16 December 2010
- Construction started
- 1 August 2012
- Began operating
- 17 June 2013
- Capacity in planning record
- 4 MW
- Address
- land at Orchard End, near Pilling, Eagland Hill, Preston, Lancashire
- REPD reference
- 3703
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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