Hill of Towie (Drummuir)

21 turbines · operational · Grampian

Wind farm facts

StatusOperational
County / regionGrampian
Turbines21
Installed capacity48 MW
Turbine capacity2.3 MW
Tip heightnot recorded
Operator (or applicant)Renewable Energy Systems (RES)
Turbine manufacturernot recorded
Turbine modelnot recorded

♻️ Project timeline

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

2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 Project timeline Application submitted November 2002 Permission granted November 2003 Under construction September 2010 Operational June 2012

From application to operation, this scheme took about 10 years.

Source: Renewable Energy Planning Database, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Open Government Licence v3.0. REPD ref 4014.

What the register tells us

The application was determined in about 12 months. Construction to first power took about 21 months. The scheme has been operating for about 14 years. That works out at 2.29 MW per turbine on average.

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