Binn Eco Park - Wind Farm

4 turbines · operational · Perth and Kinross

Wind farm facts

StatusOperational
County / regionPerth and Kinross
Turbines4
Installed capacity10 MW
Turbine capacity2.3 MW
Tip height115 m
Operator (or applicant)Binn Eco Park
Turbine manufacturernot recorded
Turbine modelnot recorded

♻️ Project timeline

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

2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 Scheme REPD 4817 Application submitted November 2014 Permission granted August 2015 Permission expired June 2018 Operational January 2020 Scheme REPD 6664 Application submitted May 2018 Refused April 2019

From application to operation, this scheme took about 6 years.

The register links a second scheme on this site (REPD ref 6664, Application Refused): 4 turbines · 124 m tip height · applicant Green Cat Renewables. 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 4817.

What the register tells us

The application was determined in about 9 months. A planning permission on this site expired in June 2018. The scheme has been operating for about 6 years. That works out at 2.5 MW per turbine on average.