Draperstown (Brackagh) Wind Farm

3 turbines · operational · Co. Derry / Londonderry

Wind farm facts

StatusOperational
County / regionCo. Derry / Londonderry
Turbines3
Installed capacity6 MW
Turbine capacity2 MW
Tip heightnot recorded
Operator (or applicant)Renewable Energy Generation (REG)
Turbine manufacturernot recorded
Turbine modelnot recorded

♻️ Project timeline

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

2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 Project timeline Application submitted February 2009 Permission granted June 2010 Under construction May 2016 Permission expired June 2016 Operational March 2017

From application to operation, this scheme took about 8 years.

Source: Renewable Energy Planning Database, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Open Government Licence v3.0. REPD ref 4361.

What the register tells us

The application was determined in about 16 months. Construction to first power took about 10 months. A planning permission on this site expired in June 2016. The scheme has been operating for about 9 years. That works out at 2 MW per turbine on average.

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