Balmurrie Fell Wind Farm

7 turbines · operational · Dumfries and Galloway

Wind farm facts

StatusOperational
County / regionDumfries and Galloway
Turbines7
Installed capacity9.1 MW
Turbine capacity1.3 MW
Tip heightnot recorded
Operator (or applicant)Scottish Southern Energy
Turbine manufacturernot recorded
Turbine modelnot recorded

♻️ Project timeline

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

2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 Project timeline Application submitted June 2009 Permission granted November 2011 Under construction March 2012 Operational September 2012

From application to operation, this scheme took about 3 years.

Source: Renewable Energy Planning Database, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Open Government Licence v3.0. REPD ref 4445.

What the register tells us

The application was determined in about 29 months. Construction to first power took about 6 months. The scheme has been operating for about 14 years. That works out at 1.3 MW per turbine on average.

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