Grid connection · England, United Kingdom
Hellrigg Wind Farm grid connection
Hellrigg Wind Farm grid connection is a grid connection in England, United Kingdom, with 10 MW of capacity, held by Npower Renewables.
Facts
Every value links to its source, and to the source's own record where it has one. Licences and last-checked dates are per row.
| Fact | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Name in the source | HELLRIGG WIND FARM grid connection | SP Electricity North West open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Location | England (connects at Carlisle) | SP Electricity North West open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Status | Operating (connected) | SP Electricity North West open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Holder | Npower Renewables | SP Electricity North West open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Attached to | Carlisle BSP (via a bulk supply point) | SP Electricity North West open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Attached to | Hellrigg Wind farm (matched by name+coordinates+technology+capacity, 0.72 km away) | Rare Context entity resolution · CC0 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 10 MW | SP Electricity North West open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Technology | Wind | SP Electricity North West open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Grid operator | Electricity North West Limited | SP Electricity North West open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Connection date | 22 Aug 2011 | SP Electricity North West open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Voltage | 33 kV | SP Electricity North West open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 54.8480, -3.3435 | SP Electricity North West open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
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Request researchLatest events
Dated events about this grid connection and the records linked to it from official notices and registers, newest first. All recent changes.
- Commissioned: Hellrigg Wind farm
- Permit granted: Hellrigg Wind farm (planning authority Cumberland, reference 2/2007/0076)
- Permit applied for: Hellrigg Wind farm (planning authority Cumberland, reference 2/2007/0076)
How it compares
Hellrigg Wind Farm grid connection is the 1,332nd-largest of 2,533 grid connections in England and the 2,105th-largest of 3,903 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 10 MW is <0.1% of the 446,745 MW we hold for the United Kingdom. Ranks and totals cover the grid connections in our data that report their capacity, not every one in existence.
| Within | Rank | Total | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 1,332nd of 2,533 | 319,370 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 2,105th of 3,903 | 446,745 MW | <0.1% |
| All grid connections in our data | 5,969th of 7,928 | 1,372,494 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this grid connection: 155 power plants (49 operating, 868 MW), 40 substations and 1 transmission line, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 7, up to 3 per kind.
| Name | Kind | Size | Status | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Park Head Farm | Power plant | 7.8 MW | Cancelled | 0.6 km |
| Hellrigg Wind farm | Power plant | 9.2 MW | Operating | 0.7 km |
| Dryholme Farm (Farm AD) | Power plant | 1 MW | Operating | 1.3 km |
| Silloth | Substation | — | — | 3.4 km |
| Aspatria | Substation | — | — | 8.2 km |
| Wigton | Substation | — | — | 12 km |
| Cross Border Connection (England) | Transmission line | — | Planned | 49 km |
Holder, grid operator and place
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Data on this page
- California ISO. CAISO queue report, CAISO Privacy and Terms of Use.
- Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD), Open Government Licence v3.0.
- SP Electricity North West, via Northern Powergrid Open Data. SP Electricity North West open data portal, CC BY 4.0.
- ERCOT GIS report. ERCOT GIS report, ERCOT Terms of Use.
- Supported by National Energy SO Open Data. NESO TEC Register, NESO Open Data Licence v1.0.
- Supported by Northern Powergrid Open Data. Northern Powergrid open data portal, Northern Powergrid Open Data Licence v1.0.
- NYISO interconnection queue. NYISO interconnection queue, Free reuse.
- Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects, Open Government Licence v3.0.
- PJM New Services Queue. PJM New Services Queue, Free reuse.
- Rare Context entity resolution. Rare Context entity resolution, CC0 1.0.
- SP Energy Networks, via Northern Powergrid Open Data. SP Energy Networks open data portal, CC BY 4.0.
- SSEN Distribution. SSEN Distribution data portal, CC BY 4.0.