Rusholme
Rusholme is a 24 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
- 24 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
- YO8 8PX
- Coordinates
- 53.7303, -0.9480
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 Rusholme compares
At a typical UK load factor for this technology (about 26% of the maximum possible output), a 24 MW station would generate roughly 55 GWh of electricity in a year, similar to the annual use of about 20,250 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
- Drax Power Station Biomass Units Β· 2,580 MW biomass power station2.9 km
- Drax Power Station Β· 2,595 MW biomass power station3.3 km
- Goole Fields B Β· 34.9 MW onshore wind farm7.2 km
- Spaldington Β· 11.8 MW onshore wind farm8.0 km
- Goole Fields A Β· 33 MW onshore wind farm8.1 km
- Sixpenny Wood Β· 20.5 MW onshore wind farm9.0 km
- Primrose Hill Β· 4.35 MW solar farm9.3 km
- Pollington Airfield Β· 5 MW solar farm9.6 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
- Rusholme Wind Farm
- Developer / operator
- EDF/China General Nuclear Power Corporation
- Planning authority
- North Yorkshire
- Planning reference
- 8/26/62/PA
- Application submitted
- 2 July 2004
- Permission granted
- 16 October 2006
- Construction started
- 1 August 2010
- Began operating
- 4 October 2010
- Capacity in planning record
- 24 MW
- Address
- Newland Wind Farm, Land at Pease Farm, Rushmere Grange, Newland, North Yorkshire
- REPD reference
- 3602
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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