Sixpenny Wood
Sixpenny Wood is a 20.5 MW onshore wind farm in Yorkshire and the Humber, England, operated by Greencoat Capital. 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
- 20.5 MW
- Status
- Operational
- Technology
- Wind Β· Onshore
- Operator
- Greencoat Capital
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber
- Country
- England
- Grid connection (DUKES)
- LV
- Combined heat & power
- No
- Postcode
- DN14 7TU
- Coordinates
- 53.7380, -0.8114
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 Sixpenny Wood compares
At a typical UK load factor for this technology (about 26% of the maximum possible output), a 20.5 MW station would generate roughly 47 GWh of electricity in a year, similar to the annual use of about 17,290 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 Greencoat CapitalNearby generating sites
- Spaldington Β· 11.8 MW onshore wind farm5.5 km
- Goole Fields B Β· 34.9 MW onshore wind farm8.4 km
- Rusholme Β· 24 MW onshore wind farm9.0 km
- Twin Rivers Β· 28.7 MW onshore wind farm9.3 km
- Goole Fields A Β· 33 MW onshore wind farm9.5 km
- Sober Hill Wind Farm Ltd Β· 12.3 MW onshore wind farm10.5 km
- Drax Power Station Biomass Units Β· 2,580 MW biomass power station11.8 km
- Drax Power Station Β· 2,595 MW biomass power station12.2 km
Also operated by Greencoat Capital
Greencoat Capital operates 195 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
- Sixpenny Wood Windfarm
- Developer / operator
- Greencoat UK Wind
- Planning authority
- East Riding of Yorkshire
- Planning reference
- 07/04680/STPLFE
- Application submitted
- 20 July 2007
- Permission granted
- 8 December 2009
- Construction started
- 1 February 2012
- Began operating
- 15 July 2013
- Capacity in planning record
- 33 MW
- Address
- Between Eastrington, Gilberdyke, Kilpin and Laxton, Humberside
- REPD reference
- 3942
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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