🌬️ Onshore wind farm

Little Byth
Grampian

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

3
turbines
4.5 MW
MW total
1.5 MW
per turbine

📍 3 turbines mapped — each dot is a turbine recorded in the database. Average position: 57.6089 N · 2.29259 W.

Little Byth

3 turbines · operational · Grampian

Wind farm facts

StatusOperational
County / regionGrampian
Turbines3
Installed capacity4.5 MW
Turbine capacity1.5 MW
Tip heightnot recorded
Operator (or applicant)Lovie Ltd
Turbine manufacturerEnercon
Turbine modelnot recorded
Open this wind farm in WhichWindTurbine Interactive map + augmented-reality identification on site

♻️ Project timeline

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

→ ~20352010201520202025today123
  1. 1Apr 2009 — Application submitted
  2. 2Dec 2009 — Permission granted
  3. 3Dec 2012 — Operational

The register also records a planning permission expiry in Dec 2018, after commissioning: an administrative date with no effect on the operating wind farm, left off the axis.

DevelopmentConstructionOperationAhead (repowering horizon at 22 years)

From application to operation, this scheme took about 3 years.

Source: Renewable Energy Planning Database, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Open Government Licence v3.0. REPD ref 3722.

What the register tells us

The application was determined in about 8 months. A planning permission on this site expired in December 2018. The scheme has been operating for about 14 years. That works out at 1.5 MW per turbine on average.

Nearby

See all wind farms in Grampian.

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

Public data may lag behind operator figures. Spotted an error? Suggest a correction from the app.