🌬️ Onshore wind farm

Afton Wind Farm
Strathclyde

Recorded in WhichWindTurbine: 25 wind turbines in operation. Point the app at one of them to see its profile in real time.

25
turbines
50 MW
MW total
2 MW
per turbine
120 m
tip height

📍 25 turbines mapped — each dot is a turbine recorded in the database. Average position: 55.31388 N · 4.17239 W.

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
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♻️ Project timeline

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

→ ~204020052010201520202025today1234
  1. 1Nov 2004 — Application submitted
  2. 2Oct 2014 — Permission granted
  3. 3Aug 2016 — Under construction
  4. 4Feb 2018 — Operational

The register also records a planning permission expiry in Oct 2000, in the same month as, or before, the permission was granted: it refers to an earlier permission, left off the axis.

DevelopmentConstructionOperationAhead (repowering horizon at 22 years)

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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Sources and dates

DataSourceExtract
Site, capacity, status, planning milestonesRenewable Energy Planning Database (DESNZ, Open Government Licence v3)Q2 2026, published 03/08/2026
Turbine positionsOpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)19/08/2026
Manufacturer and modelOpenStreetMap tags, unverified — REPD does not record turbine models. Known for 41 % of UK turbines (manufacturer) and 32 % (model); some values are propagated within a site and may be wrong.19/08/2026

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