Park Spring
Park Spring is a 8.55 MW onshore wind farm in Yorkshire and the Humber, England, operated by EDF Energy. The UK government lists it as operational in its register of power stations (DUKES table 5.11, May 2025).
- Onshore
- Yorkshire and the Humber
- England
Key facts
- Installed capacity
- 8.55 MW
- Status
- Operational
- Technology
- Wind Β· Onshore
- Operator
- EDF Energy
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber
- Country
- England
- Grid connection (DUKES)
- LV
- Combined heat & power
- No
- Postcode
- S72 7GX
- Coordinates
- 53.5740, -1.4021
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 Park Spring compares
At a typical UK load factor for this technology (about 26% of the maximum possible output), a 8.55 MW station would generate roughly 19 GWh of electricity in a year, similar to the annual use of about 7,210 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 Yorkshire and the Humber All run by EDF EnergyNearby generating sites
- Marr Wind Farm Β· 8.2 MW onshore wind farm12.2 km
- Askern Β· 4.97 MW solar farm16.5 km
- Blackburn Meadows Β· 34 MW biomass power station17.1 km
- FM1 Β· 79 MW energy-from-waste plant17.7 km
- FM2 Β· 79 MW energy-from-waste plant17.7 km
- Ferrybridge C Power Station Β· 2,000 MW coal-fired power station18.0 km
- Royd Moor Β· 6.5 MW onshore wind farm18.3 km
- Thorpe Marsh Power Station Β· 1,050 MW coal-fired power station18.6 km
Also operated by EDF Energy
EDF Energy operates 48 sites in the register. Largest first:
- Hinkley Point C Β· nuclear power station3,260 MW
- West Burton A Power Station Β· coal-fired power station2,012 MW
- Cottam Power Station Β· coal-fired power station2,008 MW
- Heysham 2 Β· nuclear power station1,240 MW
- Torness Β· nuclear power station1,200 MW
- Sizewell B Β· nuclear power station1,198 MW
- Hartlepool Β· nuclear power station1,185 MW
- Heysham 1 Β· nuclear power station1,060 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
- Park Spring Wind Farm
- Developer / operator
- EDF Energy Renewables
- Planning authority
- Barnsley
- Planning reference
- 2013/0860
- Application submitted
- 7 October 2013
- Permission granted
- 9 April 2014
- Construction started
- 15 April 2015
- Began operating
- 20 November 2015
- Capacity in planning record
- 8.6 MW
- Address
- Ferry Moor Lane, Cudworth, Barnsley, South Yorkshire
- REPD reference
- 4410
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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