🌬️ Onshore wind farm

Burnfoot Hill Extension
Tayside

Recorded in WhichWindTurbine: 2 wind turbines in operation. Point the app at one of them to see its profile in real time.

2
turbines
4 MW
MW total
2 MW
per turbine

📍 2 turbines mapped — each dot is a turbine recorded in the database. Average position: 56.21411 N · 3.769 W.

Burnfoot Hill Extension

2 turbines · operational · Tayside

Wind farm facts

StatusOperational
County / regionTayside
Turbines2
Installed capacity4 MW
Turbine capacity2 MW
Tip heightnot recorded
Operator (or applicant)Private Developer
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.

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  1. 1Dec 2011 — Application submitted
  2. 2Apr 2013 — Permission granted
  3. 3Sep 2014 — Operational

The register also records a planning permission expiry in Apr 2019, after commissioning: an administrative date with no effect on the operating wind farm, left off the axis.

DevelopmentConstructionOperationAhead (repowering horizon at 22 years)

From application to operation, this scheme took about 3 years.

Source: Renewable Energy Planning Database, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Open Government Licence v3.0. REPD ref 4450.

What the register tells us

The application was determined in about 16 months. A planning permission on this site expired in April 2019. The scheme has been operating for about 12 years. That works out at 2 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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