Wind Power
(asked on 11th March 2015) - View Source
Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how much onshore wind capacity for repowering farms (a) received planning approval and (b) was rejected in each year since 2009; and how many planning applications for repowering onshore wind farms were (i) approved and (ii) rejected in each year since 2009.
The Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) does not routinely capture information on planning applications from renewable electricity projects seeking to repower. The table below sets out the number and capacity of onshore wind projects that received or were refused planning permission in each year since 2009 and whose operator site names quoted in the REPD indicate that they are repower projects:
Approved | Refused | |||
No | Cap MW) | No | Cap (MW) | |
2009 | 1 | 9 | 1 | 1 |
2010 | 1 | 20 | 0 | 0 |
2011 | 1 | 10 | 0 | 0 |
2012 | 2 | 33 | 1 | 2 |
2013 | 4 | 37 | 0 | 0 |
2014 | 1 | 12 | 0 | 0 |
2015 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Totals | 10 | 120 | 2 | 3 |