🌬️ Onshore wind farm

Drumderg
Tayside

Recorded in WhichWindTurbine: 16 wind turbines in operation. Point the app at one of them to see its profile in real time.

16
turbines
36.8 MW
MW total
2.3 MW
per turbine

📍 16 turbines mapped — each dot is a turbine recorded in the database. Average position: 56.64603 N · 3.26049 W.

Drumderg

16 turbines · operational · Tayside

Wind farm facts

StatusOperational
County / regionTayside
Turbines16
Installed capacity36.8 MW
Turbine capacity2.3 MW
Tip heightnot recorded
Operator (or applicant)Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE)
Turbine manufacturerSenvion
Turbine modelMM92/2050
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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. 1Nov 2003 — Application submitted
  2. 2Feb 2005 — Permission granted
  3. 3Nov 2008 — Operational

The register also records a planning permission expiry in Feb 2000, in the same month as, or before, the permission was granted: it refers to an earlier permission, left off the axis.

DevelopmentConstructionOperationAhead (repowering horizon at 22 years)

From application to operation, this scheme took about 5 years.

Source: Renewable Energy Planning Database, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Open Government Licence v3.0. REPD ref 4009.

What the register tells us

The application was determined in about 15 months. A planning permission on this site expired in February 2000. The scheme has been operating for about 18 years. That works out at 2.3 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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