Barns of Ayre Wind Turbines (2)

2 turbines · operational · Orkney Islands

Wind farm facts

StatusOperational
County / regionOrkney Islands
Turbines2
Installed capacity1.8 MW
Turbine capacity0.9 MW
Tip heightnot recorded
Operator (or applicant)Ayre Energy/Aquatera Ltd
Turbine manufacturernot recorded
Turbine modelnot recorded

♻️ Project timeline

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

2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 Project timeline Application submitted November 2010 Permission granted March 2011 Under construction September 2012 Operational July 2013

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 3902.

What the register tells us

The application was determined in about 4 months. Construction to first power took about 10 months. The scheme has been operating for about 13 years. That works out at 0.9 MW per turbine on average.

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