Blackcraig

23 turbines · operational · Dumfries and Galloway

Wind farm facts

StatusOperational
County / regionDumfries and Galloway
Turbines23
Installed capacity52.9 MW
Turbine capacity2.3 MW
Tip heightnot recorded
Operator (or applicant)Blue Energy
Turbine manufacturernot recorded
Turbine modelnot recorded

♻️ Project timeline

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

2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 Project timeline Application submitted September 2005 Permission granted March 2011 Permission expired March 2015 Under construction January 2016 Operational March 2018

From application to operation, this scheme took about 13 years.

Source: Renewable Energy Planning Database, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Open Government Licence v3.0. REPD ref 4032.

What the register tells us

The application was determined in about 66 months. Construction to first power took about 26 months. A planning permission on this site expired in March 2015. The scheme has been operating for about 8 years. That works out at 2.3 MW per turbine on average.

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