Carraig Gheal

20 turbines · operational · Strathclyde

Wind farm facts

StatusOperational
County / regionStrathclyde
Turbines20
Installed capacity46 MW
Turbine capacity2.3 MW
Tip heightnot recorded
Operator (or applicant)Green Power
Turbine manufacturerSiemens Gamesa
Turbine modelnot recorded

♻️ Project timeline

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

2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 Project timeline Application submitted November 2004 Permission granted June 2008 Under construction March 2011 Operational October 2013 Permission expired June 2015

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 4619.

What the register tells us

The application was determined in about 43 months. Construction to first power took about 31 months. A planning permission on this site expired in June 2015. The scheme has been operating for about 13 years. That works out at 2.3 MW per turbine on average.

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