Power plant · East Riding of Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom

Goole Fields ll Wind Farm

Goole Fields ll Wind Farm is a power plant in East Riding of Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, with 34.9 MW of capacity, operated by Npower Renewables.

Facts

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Fact	Value	Source
Location	East Riding of Yorkshire (coordinates), England	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Address	approximately 2km south of Old Goole, immediately to the west of the consented Goole Fields Wind Farm.	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Status	Operating (operational)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Start year	2016	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Onshore or offshore	Onshore	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Permit date	22 May 2014 (permit 11/05923/STPLFE, Town and Country Planning Act, issued by East Riding of Yorkshire)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Application date	6 Jan 2012 (reference 11/05923/STPLFE, planning authority East Riding of Yorkshire)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Decision date	22 May 2014 (granted, reference 11/05923/STPLFE, planning authority East Riding of Yorkshire)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Operator	Npower Renewables	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Capacity	34.9 MW	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Units	17 units (2.05 MW per unit)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Technology	Wind Onshore	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Coordinates	53.6776, -0.8836	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026

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Latest events

Dated events about this power plant from official notices and registers, newest first. All recent changes.

14 Nov 2016Commissioned
22 May 2014Permit granted (planning authority East Riding of Yorkshire, reference 11/05923/STPLFE)
6 Jan 2012Permit applied for (planning authority East Riding of Yorkshire, reference 11/05923/STPLFE)

How it compares

Goole Fields ll Wind Farm is the 354th-largest of 3,430 power plants in England and the 668th-largest of 5,050 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 34.9 MW is <0.1% of the 115,622 MW we hold for the United Kingdom. Ranks and totals cover the power plants in our data that report their capacity, not every one in existence. Power plants planned, permitted or under construction are ranked apart.

Within	Rank	Total	Share
England	354th of 3,430	71,965 MW	<0.1%
United Kingdom	668th of 5,050	115,622 MW	<0.1%
All power plants in our data	2,555th of 12,032	1,190,447 MW	<0.1%

Timeline

Dated facts about this power plant from its sources, oldest first.

2016Started operating

Nearby

Within 50 km of this power plant: 461 grid connections (230 operating, 2,901 MW), 287 substations, 5 data centers and 3 transmission lines, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 9, up to 3 per kind.

Name	Kind	Size	Status	Distance
Wind 32.8 MW grid connection at Goole Fields Windfarm	Grid connection	32.8 MW	Operating	1.7 km
Guardian Glass	Substation	—	—	2.4 km
Goole	Substation	—	—	2.6 km
Gas 5.16 MW grid connection at Glassworks 1_2	Grid connection	5.16 MW	Operating	2.6 km
Solar 1 MW grid connection at Goole	Grid connection	1 MW	Operating	3.1 km
Rawcliffe	Substation	—	—	4.0 km
North Humber to High Marnham	Transmission line	—	Planned	24 km
Thales	Data center	—	—	24 km
HSBC Wakefield Data Centre	Data center	—	—	33 km

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Data on this page

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD), Open Government Licence v3.0.
Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (Sep 2026). EIA-860 / 860M / 923, Public domain.
JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN), European Commission, Joint Research Centre. JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN), CC BY 4.0.
Bundesnetzagentur, Marktstammdatenregister. Marktstammdatenregister, DL-DE-BY-2.0.
Dutch power station owners' and operators' pages. Dutch power station owners' and operators' pages, Facts only, each linked to its page.
Supported by Northern Powergrid Open Data. Northern Powergrid open data portal, Northern Powergrid Open Data Licence v1.0.
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects, Open Government Licence v3.0.
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