Potato Pot
Potato Pot is a 7.05 MW onshore wind farm in North 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
- North West
- England
Key facts
- Installed capacity
- 7.05 MW
- Status
- Operational
- Technology
- Wind Β· Onshore
- Operator
- Capital Dynamics UK
- Region
- North West
- Country
- England
- Grid connection (DUKES)
- LV
- Combined heat & power
- No
- Postcode
- CA14 4ST
- Coordinates
- 54.6027, -3.5031
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 Potato Pot compares
At a typical UK load factor for this technology (about 26% of the maximum possible output), a 7.05 MW station would generate roughly 16 GWh of electricity in a year, similar to the annual use of about 5,950 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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- Moor House Β· 4.92 MW solar farm2.1 km
- Fairfield Β· 6.5 MW onshore wind farm2.9 km
- Winscales Moor Β· 5.95 MW onshore wind farm4.4 km
- Wythegill Β· 2.3 MW onshore wind farm8.0 km
- Clay Cross Β· 4.99 MW solar farm8.1 km
- Flimby Wind Energy Ltd Β· 6.15 MW onshore wind farm9.4 km
- Tallentire Wind Farm (GB) Β· 12 MW onshore wind farm14.8 km
- Calder Hall Β· 196 MW nuclear power station19.9 km
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
- Potato Pot Wind Farm
- Developer / operator
- Capital Dynamics
- Planning authority
- Cumberland
- Planning reference
- 2/2012/0594
- Application submitted
- 7 August 2012
- Permission granted
- 23 October 2013
- Construction started
- 15 September 2015
- Began operating
- 15 September 2016
- Capacity in planning record
- 6 MW
- Address
- Land at Potato Pot Branthwaite Workington Cumbria, Cumbria
- REPD reference
- 4233
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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