Power plant · Newark and Sherwood, England, United Kingdom

Lindhurst Wind Farm

Lindhurst Wind Farm is a power plant in Newark and Sherwood, England, United Kingdom, with 15 MW of capacity, operated by Npower Renewables.

Facts

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Fact	Value	Source
Location	Newark and Sherwood (coordinates), England	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Address	Lindhurst, South of Mansfield	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	2010	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	21 Sept 2007 (permit 06/01014/FULM, Town and Country Planning Act, issued by Newark and Sherwood)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Application date	1 Jun 2006 (reference 06/01014/FULM, planning authority Newark and Sherwood)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Decision date	21 Sept 2007 (granted, reference 06/01014/FULM, planning authority Newark and Sherwood)	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	15 MW	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Units	5 units (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	53.1182, -1.1485	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.

4 Nov 2010Commissioned
21 Sept 2007Permit granted (planning authority Newark and Sherwood, reference 06/01014/FULM)
1 Jun 2006Permit applied for (planning authority Newark and Sherwood, reference 06/01014/FULM)

How it compares

Lindhurst Wind Farm is the 774th-largest of 3,430 power plants in England and the 1,388th-largest of 5,050 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 15 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	774th of 3,430	71,965 MW	<0.1%
United Kingdom	1,388th of 5,050	115,622 MW	<0.1%
All power plants in our data	5,118th of 12,032	1,190,447 MW	<0.1%

Timeline

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

2010Started operating

Nearby

Within 50 km of this power plant: 109 substations, 104 grid connections (61 operating, 506 MW), 7 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
nLighten Nottingham	Data center	—	—	13 km
Chesterfield to Willington	Transmission line	—	Planned	22 km
Wind 20.22 MW grid connection at Pennyhill Windfarm	Grid connection	20.2 MW	Operating	24 km
Digital Space DC - Newark	Data center	—	—	24 km
Kiveton Park	Substation	—	—	25 km
Wind 4.5 MW grid connection at Kiveton Park	Grid connection	4.5 MW	Operating	25 km
Battery storage 40 MW grid connection at Kiveton Park PS Direct	Grid connection	40 MW	Planned	25 km
Experian	Data center	—	—	27 km
Costhorpe	Substation	—	—	28 km

Operator and place

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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.