Earlseat

8 turbines · operational · Fife

Wind farm facts

StatusOperational
County / regionFife
Turbines8
Installed capacity18.4 MW
Turbine capacity2.3 MW
Tip heightnot recorded
Operator (or applicant)The Renewables Infrastructure Group (TRIG)
Turbine manufacturerVestas
Turbine modelnot recorded

♻️ Project timeline

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

2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 Project timeline Application submitted September 2010 Permission expired March 2011 Permission granted March 2012 Under construction October 2013 Operational July 2014

From application to operation, this scheme took about 4 years.

Source: Renewable Energy Planning Database, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Open Government Licence v3.0. REPD ref 4363.

What the register tells us

The application was determined in about 18 months. Construction to first power took about 9 months. A planning permission on this site expired in March 2011. The scheme has been operating for about 12 years. That works out at 2.3 MW per turbine on average.

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