Afton Wind Farm

25 turbines · operational · Strathclyde

Wind farm facts

StatusOperational
County / regionStrathclyde
Turbines25
Installed capacity50 MW
Turbine capacity2 MW
Tip height120 m
Operator (or applicant)InfraRed Capital Partners/ E.on
Turbine manufacturerVestas
Turbine modelV136-4.5

♻️ Project timeline

Dated milestones from the UK Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD), Q2 2026 — not estimates.

1999 2001 2003 2005 2007 2009 2011 2013 2015 2017 2019 Project timeline Permission expired October 2000 Application submitted November 2004 Permission granted October 2014 Under construction August 2016 Operational February 2018

From application to operation, this scheme took about 14 years.

Source: Renewable Energy Planning Database, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Open Government Licence v3.0. REPD ref 4262.

What the register tells us

The application was determined in about 119 months. Construction to first power took about 18 months. A planning permission on this site expired in October 2000. The scheme has been operating for about 8 years. That works out at 2 MW per turbine on average.

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