Cathkin Braes Wind Farm (Castlemilk)

1 turbines · operational · Strathclyde

Wind farm facts

StatusOperational
County / regionStrathclyde
Turbines1
Installed capacity3 MW
Turbine capacity3 MW
Tip heightnot recorded
Operator (or applicant)Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE)
Turbine manufacturerVestas
Turbine modelV90

♻️ Project timeline

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

2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 Project timeline Permission expired January 2010 Application submitted September 2012 Permission granted January 2013 Operational May 2013

From application to operation, this scheme took about 1 year.

Source: Renewable Energy Planning Database, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Open Government Licence v3.0. REPD ref 4060.

What the register tells us

The application was determined in about 4 months. A planning permission on this site expired in January 2010. The scheme has been operating for about 13 years. That works out at 3 MW per turbine on average.

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