Earlsburn North (Kingsburn) Wind Farm

9 turbines · operational · Stirling

Wind farm facts

StatusOperational
County / regionStirling
Turbines9
Installed capacity22.5 MW
Turbine capacity2.5 MW
Tip heightnot recorded
Operator (or applicant)Falck Renewables
Turbine manufacturerNordex
Turbine modelN80/2500

♻️ Project timeline

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

2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 Project timeline Application submitted February 2008 Permission granted April 2010 Under construction June 2014 Operational May 2016 Permission expired April 2018

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 4247.

What the register tells us

The application was determined in about 26 months. Construction to first power took about 23 months. A planning permission on this site expired in April 2018. The scheme has been operating for about 10 years. That works out at 2.5 MW per turbine on average.