Power plant · Sunderland, England, United Kingdom

Great Eppleton Wind Farm

Great Eppleton Wind Farm is a power plant in Sunderland, England, United Kingdom, with 3 MW of capacity, operated by AMEC and Border Windfarm Limited.

Facts

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Fact	Value	Source
Location	Sunderland (coordinates), England	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Address	Great Eppleton Farm North Lane Hetton le Hole Tyne and Wear	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	1997	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	25 Jul 1996 (Town and Country Planning Act, issued by Sunderland)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Application date	2 Aug 1995 (planning authority Sunderland)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Decision date	25 Jul 1996 (granted, planning authority Sunderland)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Operator	AMEC (Border Windfarm Limited / AMEC)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Operator	Border Windfarm Limited (Border Windfarm Limited / AMEC)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Capacity	3 MW	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Units	4 units (0.75 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	54.8284, -1.4240	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.

1 Apr 1997Commissioned
25 Jul 1996Permit granted (planning authority Sunderland)
2 Aug 1995Permit applied for (planning authority Sunderland)

How it compares

Great Eppleton Wind Farm is the 2,525th-largest of 3,430 power plants in England and the 3,739th-largest of 5,050 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 3 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	2,525th of 3,430	71,965 MW	<0.1%
United Kingdom	3,739th of 5,050	115,622 MW	<0.1%
All power plants in our data	9,677th of 12,032	1,190,447 MW	<0.1%

Timeline

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

1997Started operating

Nearby

Within 50 km of this power plant: 285 grid connections (146 operating, 1,810 MW), 164 substations and 5 data centers, 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 7.79 MW grid connection at Stoney Cut	Grid connection	7.79 MW	Operating	0.1 km
Battery storage and Solar 118.5 MW grid connection at Salters Lane PV	Grid connection	119 MW	Planned	1.5 km
Wind 6 MW grid connection at Hawthorn Pit	Grid connection	6 MW	Operating	1.7 km
Hawthorn Pit Grid	Substation	—	—	2.8 km
Hawthorn Pit	Substation	—	—	3.0 km
Houghton	Substation	—	—	4.4 km
Stellium Newcastle Campus	Data center	—	—	22 km
DXC Wynyard Data Center	Data center	—	—	23 km
Lumen Technologies data center, Middlesbrough	Data center	—	—	30 km

Operators and place

AMECOperator
Border Windfarm LimitedOperator
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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.
RVO SDE(+)(+) projecten in beheer and SDE viewer. RVO SDE(+)(+) projecten in beheer and SDE viewer, Free reuse, no attribution required.