Winscales Moor
Winscales Moor is a 5.95 MW onshore wind farm in North West England, 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
- North West
- England
Key facts
- Installed capacity
- 5.95 MW
- Status
- Operational
- Technology
- Wind Β· Onshore
- Operator
- WPO UK Services
- Region
- North West
- Country
- England
- Grid connection (DUKES)
- LV
- Combined heat & power
- No
- Coordinates
- 54.6423, -3.4968
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 Winscales Moor compares
At a typical UK load factor for this technology (about 26% of the maximum possible output), a 5.95 MW station would generate roughly 14 GWh of electricity in a year, similar to the annual use of about 5,020 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 North West All run by WPO UK ServicesNearby generating sites
- Moor House Β· 4.92 MW solar farm3.8 km
- Wythegill Β· 2.3 MW onshore wind farm3.9 km
- Clay Cross Β· 4.99 MW solar farm4.3 km
- Potato Pot Β· 7.05 MW onshore wind farm4.4 km
- Flimby Wind Energy Ltd Β· 6.15 MW onshore wind farm5.1 km
- Fairfield Β· 6.5 MW onshore wind farm7.2 km
- Tallentire Wind Farm (GB) Β· 12 MW onshore wind farm11.4 km
- Westnewton (BEGL4) Β· 6.15 MW onshore wind farm18.1 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
- Developer / operator
- Gravis Capital Management
- Planning authority
- Cumberland
- Planning reference
- 2/2006/1321
- Application submitted
- 1 October 2006
- Permission granted
- 20 June 2007
- Construction started
- 1 December 2008
- Began operating
- 1 May 2009
- Capacity in planning record
- 6 MW
- Address
- Winscales Moor, Cumbria
- REPD reference
- 2986
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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