🌬️ Onshore wind farm

Drone Hill
Borders

Recorded in WhichWindTurbine: 22 wind turbines in operation. Point the app at one of them to see its profile in real time.

22
turbines
28.6 MW
MW total
1.3 MW
per turbine

📍 22 turbines mapped — each dot is a turbine recorded in the database. Average position: 55.90147 N · 2.26114 W.

Drone Hill

22 turbines · operational · Borders

Wind farm facts

StatusOperational
County / regionBorders
Turbines22
Installed capacity28.6 MW
Turbine capacity1.3 MW
Tip heightnot recorded
Operator (or applicant)Greencoat UK Wind
Turbine manufacturerVestas
Turbine modelV80
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♻️ Project timeline

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

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  1. 1Mar 2005 — Application submitted
  2. 2Nov 2007 — Permission granted
  3. 3Apr 2011 — Under construction
  4. 4Sep 2012 — Operational

DevelopmentConstructionOperationAhead (repowering horizon at 22 years)

From application to operation, this scheme took about 7 years.

Source: Renewable Energy Planning Database, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Open Government Licence v3.0. REPD ref 4023.

What the register tells us

The application was determined in about 32 months. Construction to first power took about 17 months. The scheme has been operating for about 14 years. That works out at 1.3 MW per turbine on average.

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Sources and dates

DataSourceExtract
Site, capacity, status, planning milestonesRenewable Energy Planning Database (DESNZ, Open Government Licence v3)Q2 2026, published 03/08/2026
Turbine positionsOpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)19/08/2026
Manufacturer and modelOpenStreetMap tags, unverified — REPD does not record turbine models. Known for 41 % of UK turbines (manufacturer) and 32 % (model); some values are propagated within a site and may be wrong.19/08/2026

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