Burgar Hill

2 turbines · operational · Orkney Islands

Wind farm facts

StatusOperational
County / regionOrkney Islands
Turbines2
Installed capacity5 MW
Turbine capacity2.5 MW
Tip heightnot recorded
Operator (or applicant)Orkney Sustainable Energy
Turbine manufacturernot recorded
Turbine modelnot recorded

♻️ Project timeline

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

1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 Project timeline Application submitted February 1997 Permission granted July 1997 Operational December 2006

From application to operation, this scheme took about 9 years.

Source: Renewable Energy Planning Database, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Open Government Licence v3.0. REPD ref 3307.

What the register tells us

The application was determined in about 5 months. The scheme has been operating for about 20 years. At that age, wind farms commonly become candidates for repowering or life extension — nothing in the register confirms such a plan here. That works out at 2.5 MW per turbine on average.

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