Gallowhill

2 turbines · operational · Orkney Islands

Wind farm facts

StatusOperational
County / regionOrkney Islands
Turbines2
Installed capacity1.8 MW
Turbine capacity0.9 MW
Tip heightnot recorded
Operator (or applicant)Private Developer
Turbine manufacturernot recorded
Turbine modelnot recorded

♻️ Project timeline

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

2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 Project timeline Application submitted October 2008 Permission granted March 2009 Operational February 2013 Permission expired March 2013

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 3693.

What the register tells us

The application was determined in about 5 months. A planning permission on this site expired in March 2013. The scheme has been operating for about 13 years. That works out at 0.9 MW per turbine on average.

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