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

♻️ Project timeline

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

2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 Project timeline Application submitted March 2005 Permission granted November 2007 Under construction April 2011 Operational September 2012

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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