Power plant · County Durham, England, United Kingdom

High Sharpley Wind Farm

High Sharpley Wind Farm is a wind power plant in County Durham, England, United Kingdom, with 2.6 MW of capacity, operated by REG Windpower.

Facts

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Fact	Value	Source
Location	County Durham (coordinates), England	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Address	High Sharpley and South Sharpley Farms Near Seaham County Durham	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	2006	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	13 Jun 2002 (permit 02/221, Town and Country Planning Act, issued by County Durham)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Application date	9 Apr 2002 (reference 02/221, planning authority County Durham)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Decision date	13 Jun 2002 (granted, reference 02/221, planning authority County Durham)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Operator	REG Windpower (REG Windpower (previously Cornwall Light & Power))	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Capacity	2.6 MW	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Units	2 units (1.3 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	54.8415, -1.3343	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 Dec 2006Commissioned
13 Jun 2002Permit granted (planning authority County Durham, reference 02/221)
9 Apr 2002Permit applied for (planning authority County Durham, reference 02/221)

How it compares

High Sharpley Wind Farm is the 3,125th-largest of 4,036 power plants in England and the 4,533rd-largest of 5,837 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 2.6 MW is <0.1% of the 200,833 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	3,125th of 4,036	134,406 MW	<0.1%
United Kingdom	4,533rd of 5,837	200,833 MW	<0.1%
All power plants in our data	10,796th of 13,028	1,354,089 MW	<0.1%

Timeline

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

2006Started operating

Nearby

Within 50 km of this power plant: 280 grid connections (142 operating, 1,694 MW), 163 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
Solar 8 MW grid connection at Stoney Cut	Grid connection	8 MW	Planned	1.9 km
Seaham Grange Farm grid connection	Grid connection	36 MW	Planned	2.4 km
Stoney Cut	Substation	—	—	3.3 km
Solar 3 MW grid connection at Stoney Cut	Grid connection	3 MW	Operating	3.3 km
Tunstall	Substation	—	—	5.2 km
Hawthorn Pit	Substation	—	—	5.6 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

Operator and place

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Data on this page

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. DUKES 5.11: Power stations in the United Kingdom, Open Government Licence v3.0.
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.