Ardrossan Extension

12 turbines · operational · Strathclyde

Wind farm facts

StatusOperational
County / regionStrathclyde
Turbines12
Installed capacity24 MW
Turbine capacity2 MW
Tip heightnot recorded
Operator (or applicant)Airtricity
Turbine manufacturernot recorded
Turbine modelnot recorded

♻️ Project timeline

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

2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 Scheme REPD 3117 Application submitted May 2002 Permission granted January 2003 Operational December 2003 Permission expired January 2014 Scheme REPD 4668 Application submitted December 2005 Permission granted November 2007 Under construction March 2008 Operational November 2008 Permission expired November 2011

From application to operation, this scheme took about 1 year.

The register links a second scheme on this site (REPD ref 4668, Operational): 3 turbines · 2 MW each · applicant Airtricity. Two schemes on one site usually mean a repowering or an extension — to be confirmed with the operator.

Source: Renewable Energy Planning Database, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Open Government Licence v3.0. REPD ref 3117.

What the register tells us

The application was determined in about 8 months. A planning permission on this site expired in January 2014. The scheme has been operating for about 23 years. At that age, wind farms commonly become candidates for repowering or life extension — nothing in the register confirms such a plan here. That works out at 2 MW per turbine on average.

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