🌬️ Onshore wind farm

Benbrack Wind Farm
East Ayrshire

Recorded in WhichWindTurbine: 15 wind turbines in operation. Point the app at one of them to see its profile in real time.

15
turbines
67.1 MW
MW total
4.5 MW
per turbine
149.9 m
tip height

📍 15 turbines mapped — each dot is a turbine recorded in the database. Average position: 55.28145 N · 4.30738 W.

Benbrack Wind Farm

15 turbines · operational · East Ayrshire

Wind farm facts

StatusOperational
County / regionEast Ayrshire
Turbines15
Installed capacity67.1 MW
Turbine capacity4.5 MW
Tip height149.9 m
Operator (or applicant)E.ON Renewables / Red Rock Power Limited
Turbine manufacturerVestas
Turbine modelV136-4.5 (13) and V117-4.2 (2)
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✓ Verified reference — turbine make and model

Vestas · V136-4.5 (13) and V117-4.2 (2) · 15 turbines · 4.5 MW each

Source: GlobalData / Power Technology, wind farm profile, 2024-11, read on 2026-09-14. Corroborated by 3 further sources. Where OpenStreetMap tags differ, this record prevails.

♻️ Project timeline

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

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  1. 1Nov 2014 — Application submitted
  2. 2Sep 2017 — Permission granted
  3. 3Sep 2017 — Granted on appeal
  4. 4Aug 2022 — Under construction
  5. 5Oct 2025 — Operational

The register also records a planning permission expiry in Nov 2024, after construction had started: an administrative date with no effect on the wind farm, left off the axis.

DevelopmentConstructionOperationAhead (repowering horizon at 22 years)

From application to operation, this scheme took about 11 years.

Source: Renewable Energy Planning Database, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Open Government Licence v3.0. REPD ref 3503.

What the register tells us

The application was determined in about 34 months. Construction to first power took about 38 months. Permission was ultimately granted on appeal in September 2017. A planning permission on this site expired in November 2024. The scheme has been operating for about 1 year. That works out at 4.47 MW per turbine on average.

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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