🌬️ Onshore wind farm

Hoprigshiels Community Wind Farm
Borders

Recorded in WhichWindTurbine: 3 wind turbines in operation. Point the app at one of them to see its profile in real time.

3
turbines
6.9 MW
MW total
2.3 MW
per turbine

📍 3 turbines mapped — each dot is a turbine recorded in the database. Average position: 55.91701 N · 2.3878 W.

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
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♻️ Project timeline

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

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  1. 1Jun 2011 — Application submitted
  2. 2Nov 2014 — Permission granted
  3. 3Jan 2016 — Under construction
  4. 4Mar 2017 — Operational

The register also records a planning permission expiry in Nov 2016, after construction had started: an administrative date with no effect on the wind farm, left off the axis.

DevelopmentConstructionOperationAhead (repowering horizon at 22 years)

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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Sources and dates

DataSourceExtract
Site, capacity, status, planning milestonesRenewable Energy Planning Database (DESNZ, Open Government Licence v3)Q2 2026, published 03/08/2026
Turbine positionsOpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)19/08/2026
Manufacturer and modelOpenStreetMap tags, unverified — REPD does not record turbine models. Known for 41 % of UK turbines (manufacturer) and 32 % (model); some values are propagated within a site and may be wrong.19/08/2026

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