Wind Power

(asked on 28th November 2022) - View Source

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how much onshore wind generation capacity (a) is operating, (b) is under construction and (c) has planning permission as of 30 September 2022.


Answered by
Graham Stuart Portrait
Graham Stuart
This question was answered on 2nd December 2022

The UK currently has approximately 14.6GW of operational onshore wind capacity. Individual projects under construction and with planning permission awaiting construction are listed in the Renewable Energy Planning Database at:

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

There are no published aggregated figures for these categories.

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