Burn of Whilk

9 turbines · operational · Highland

Wind farm facts

StatusOperational
County / regionHighland
Turbines9
Installed capacity22.5 MW
Turbine capacity2.5 MW
Tip heightnot recorded
Operator (or applicant)RWE npower
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 Project timeline Application submitted February 2007 Permission granted March 2011 Permission expired March 2013 Under construction May 2014 Operational August 2015

From application to operation, this scheme took about 8 years.

Source: Renewable Energy Planning Database, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Open Government Licence v3.0. REPD ref 4122.

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 March 2013. The scheme has been operating for about 11 years. That works out at 2.5 MW per turbine on average.

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