Slieve Rushen
Slieve Rushen is a 54 MW onshore wind farm in Northern Ireland, operated by WPO UK Services. The UK government lists it as operational in its register of power stations (DUKES table 5.11, May 2025).
- Onshore
- Northern Ireland
Key facts
- Installed capacity
- 54 MW
- Status
- Operational
- Technology
- Wind Β· Onshore
- Operator
- WPO UK Services
- Region
- Northern Ireland
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Grid connection (DUKES)
- LV
- Combined heat & power
- No
- Coordinates
- 54.1903, -7.6284
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 Slieve Rushen compares
At a typical UK load factor for this technology (about 26% of the maximum possible output), a 54 MW station would generate roughly 123 GWh of electricity in a year, similar to the annual use of about 45,550 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 Northern Ireland All run by WPO UK ServicesNearby generating sites
- Ora More Β· 15 MW onshore wind farm23.9 km
- Lendrums Bridge Extension Wind Farm (NI) Β· 7.3 MW onshore wind farm33.1 km
- Screggagh Β· 20 MW onshore wind farm35.8 km
- Lendrums Bridge Wind Farm (NI) Β· 5.94 MW onshore wind farm36.6 km
- Callagheen Β· 16.9 MW onshore wind farm36.7 km
- Tappaghan Wind Farm Β· 28.5 MW onshore wind farm40.1 km
- Shantavny Β· 16.1 MW onshore wind farm47.9 km
- Slieve Divena Β· 30 MW onshore wind farm49.0 km
Also operated by WPO UK Services
WPO UK Services operates 38 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
- Slieve Rushen Extension
- Developer / operator
- Unknown
- Planning authority
- Fermanagh and Omagh
- Planning reference
- L/2004/2058/F
- Application submitted
- 4 November 2004
- Permission granted
- 1 October 2006
- Began operating
- 15 April 2008
- Capacity in planning record
- 54 MW
- Address
- Slieve Rushen Derrylin Fermanagh, Co. Fermanagh
- REPD reference
- 4504
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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