Brockaghboy Wind Farm - extension

15 turbines · operational · Co. Derry / Londonderry

Wind farm facts

StatusOperational
County / regionCo. Derry / Londonderry
Turbines15
Installed capacity37.5 MW
Turbine capacity2.5 MW
Tip heightnot recorded
Operator (or applicant)Greencoat
Turbine manufacturernot recorded
Turbine modelnot recorded

♻️ Project timeline

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

2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 Scheme REPD 4249 Application submitted December 2007 Permission granted January 2012 Under construction June 2016 Permission expired January 2017 Operational September 2017 Scheme REPD 2888 Application submitted June 2014 Permission granted October 2015 Under construction June 2016 Operational September 2017 Permission expired October 2018

From application to operation, this scheme took about 10 years.

The register links a second scheme on this site (REPD ref 2888, Operational): 4 turbines · 3 MW each · applicant Greencoat. 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 4249.

What the register tells us

The application was determined in about 49 months. Construction to first power took about 15 months. A planning permission on this site expired in January 2017. The scheme has been operating for about 9 years. That works out at 2.5 MW per turbine on average.

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