Crystal Rig Phase 1

25 turbines · operational · Borders

Wind farm facts

StatusOperational
County / regionBorders
Turbines25
Installed capacity62.5 MW
Turbine capacity2.5 MW
Tip heightnot recorded
Operator (or applicant)Fred Olsen Renewables
Turbine manufacturerSiemens Gamesa
Turbine modelnot recorded

♻️ Project timeline

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

2000 2003 2006 2009 2012 2015 2018 2021 2024 Original scheme Application submitted April 2001 Permission granted January 2003 Operational June 2004 Permission expired January 2016 Later scheme Application submitted September 2025

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

The register links a second scheme on this site (REPD ref 19577, Application Submitted): 10 turbines · 7.2 MW each · 230 m tip height · applicant Fred Olsen Renewables. Two schemes on one site usually mean a repowering or an extension — to be confirmed with the operator.

Source: Renewable Energy Planning Database, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Open Government Licence v3.0. REPD ref 3114.

What the register tells us

The application was determined in about 21 months. A planning permission on this site expired in January 2016. The scheme has been operating for about 22 years. At that age, wind farms commonly become candidates for repowering or life extension — nothing in the register confirms such a plan here. That works out at 2.5 MW per turbine on average.

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