🌬️ Onshore wind farm

Burn of Whilk
Highland

Recorded in WhichWindTurbine: 9 wind turbines in operation. Point the app at one of them to see its profile in real time.

9
turbines
22.5 MW
MW total
2.5 MW
per turbine

📍 9 turbines mapped — each dot is a turbine recorded in the database. Average position: 58.35546 N · 3.21425 W.

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
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♻️ Project timeline

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

→ ~20382010201520202025today12345
  1. 1Feb 2007 — Application submitted
  2. 2Mar 2011 — Permission granted
  3. 3Mar 2013 — Permission expired
  4. 4May 2014 — Under construction
  5. 5Aug 2015 — Operational

DevelopmentConstructionOperationAhead (repowering horizon at 22 years)

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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Sources and dates

DataSourceExtract
Site, capacity, status, planning milestonesRenewable Energy Planning Database (DESNZ, Open Government Licence v3)Q2 2026, published 03/08/2026
Turbine positionsOpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)19/08/2026
Manufacturer and modelOpenStreetMap tags, unverified — REPD does not record turbine models. Known for 41 % of UK turbines (manufacturer) and 32 % (model); some values are propagated within a site and may be wrong.19/08/2026

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