Wythegill
Wythegill is a 2.3 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
- 2.3 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 1SA
- Coordinates
- 54.6741, -3.5231
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 Wythegill compares
At a typical UK load factor for this technology (about 26% of the maximum possible output), a 2.3 MW station would generate roughly 5.2 GWh of electricity in a year, similar to the annual use of about 1,940 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 Capital Dynamics UKNearby generating sites
- Clay Cross Β· 4.99 MW solar farm0.9 km
- Flimby Wind Energy Ltd Β· 6.15 MW onshore wind farm1.6 km
- Winscales Moor Β· 5.95 MW onshore wind farm3.9 km
- Moor House Β· 4.92 MW solar farm6.7 km
- Potato Pot Β· 7.05 MW onshore wind farm8.0 km
- Fairfield Β· 6.5 MW onshore wind farm10.6 km
- Tallentire Wind Farm (GB) Β· 12 MW onshore wind farm11.1 km
- Robin Rigg East Β· 84 MW offshore wind farm14.9 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
- Wythegill Wind Turbine
- Developer / operator
- Airvolution Energy
- Planning authority
- Cumberland
- Planning reference
- 2/2011/0259
- Application submitted
- 14 April 2011
- Permission granted
- 11 October 2012
- Construction started
- 15 March 2015
- Began operating
- 15 June 2015
- Capacity in planning record
- 2.3 MW
- Address
- Land at Wythegill Syke, Seaton, Workington, Cumbria, Cumbria, CA15 8RX
- REPD reference
- 3832
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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