Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what the capacity is of wind turbines (a) built and (b) with planning consent awaiting construction in Northamptonshire.

The generating capacity of wind turbines in Northamptonshire at the end of May 2015 was 91MW for operational turbines and 34.9MW for turbines with planning consent awaiting construction.

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

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

Please note: 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.