Gawnsmoss Cluster

3 turbines · operational · Aberdeenshire

Wind farm facts

StatusOperational
County / regionAberdeenshire
Turbines3
Installed capacity2.4 MW
Turbine capacity0.8 MW
Tip height79 m
Operator (or applicant)Farm Energy Consulting
Turbine manufacturernot recorded
Turbine modelnot recorded

♻️ Project timeline

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

2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 Project timeline Application submitted October 2012 Refused October 2014 Permission granted March 2015 Granted on appeal March 2015 Under construction October 2016 Operational March 2017 Permission expired March 2018

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 4892.

What the register tells us

The application was determined in about 29 months. Construction to first power took about 5 months. The register records a refusal in October 2014 before the scheme progressed. Permission was ultimately granted on appeal in March 2015. A planning permission on this site expired in March 2018. The scheme has been operating for about 9 years. That works out at 0.8 MW per turbine on average.