Hoprigshiels Community Wind Farm

3 turbines · operational · Borders

Wind farm facts

StatusOperational
County / regionBorders
Turbines3
Installed capacity6.9 MW
Turbine capacity2.3 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.

2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 Project timeline Application submitted June 2011 Permission granted November 2014 Under construction January 2016 Permission expired November 2016 Operational March 2017

From application to operation, this scheme took about 6 years.

Source: Renewable Energy Planning Database, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Open Government Licence v3.0. REPD ref 4575.

What the register tells us

The application was determined in about 41 months. Construction to first power took about 14 months. A planning permission on this site expired in November 2016. The scheme has been operating for about 9 years. That works out at 2.3 MW per turbine on average.

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