Carcant Windfarm

3 turbines · operational · Borders

Wind farm facts

StatusOperational
County / regionBorders
Turbines3
Installed capacity6 MW
Turbine capacity2 MW
Tip heightnot recorded
Operator (or applicant)Greencoat UK Wind
Turbine manufacturernot recorded
Turbine modelnot recorded

♻️ Project timeline

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

2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 Project timeline Application submitted October 2005 Permission granted September 2006 Under construction April 2010 Operational November 2010

From application to operation, this scheme took about 5 years.

Source: Renewable Energy Planning Database, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Open Government Licence v3.0. REPD ref 3214.

What the register tells us

The application was determined in about 11 months. Construction to first power took about 7 months. The scheme has been operating for about 16 years. That works out at 2 MW per turbine on average.

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