Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many wind farms have been established in each of the last five years.

The table below sets out how many onshore and offshore wind farms have been established in the UK in each of the last five years for which full year data is available.

Table 1: UK onshore and offshore wind farms that have become operational between January 1 2013 and 31 December 2017

Source: Renewable Energy Planning Database (April 2018 extract) BEIS: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/renewable-energy-planning-database-monthly-extract

Note: extensions to existing sites have been counted as new sites.