Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many onshore wind turbines there were in (a) Cumbria and (b) the UK in (i) 2012-13 and (ii) 2013-14

In Cumbria there were 119 onshore wind turbines at the end of March 2013 and 128 turbines at the end of March 2014.

In the UK there were 3959 onshore wind turbines at the end of March 2013 and 4374 turbines at the end of March 2014.

Source: Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD), May 2015 extract:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/renewable-energy-planning-database-monthly-extract

Please note that the REPD captures projects entering planning that are 1MW or larger. Therefore, there may be additional onshore wind turbines not captured by the figures given above where these are smaller than 1MW.