🌬️ Onshore wind farm

Longhill Burn Wind Farm
West Lothian

Recorded in WhichWindTurbine: 8 wind turbines. Point the app at one of them to see its profile in real time.

8
turbines
45.6 MW
MW total
5.7 MW
per turbine
200 m
tip height

📍 8 turbines mapped — each dot is a turbine recorded in the database. Average position: 55.81148 N · 3.62374 W.

Longhill Burn Wind Farm

8 turbines · under construction · West Lothian

Wind farm facts

StatusUnder Construction
County / regionWest Lothian
Turbines8
Installed capacity45.6 MW
Turbine capacity5.7 MW
Tip height200 m
Operator (or applicant)EnergieKontor UK
Turbine manufacturerSiemens Gamesa
Turbine modelSG 5.8-155
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✓ Verified reference — turbine make and model

Siemens Gamesa · SG 5.8-155 · 8 turbines · 5.8 MW each · rotor 155 m

Source: Siemens Gamesa, order press release (March 2021), 2021-03, read on 2026-09-19. Corroborated by 2 further sources. OpenStreetMap tags shown elsewhere on this page differ from this record; the sources above prevail.

♻️ Project timeline

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

20192020202120222023123
  1. 1Apr 2019 — Application submitted
  2. 2Apr 2020 — Permission granted
  3. 3Apr 2021 — Under construction

The register also records a planning permission expiry in Apr 2025, after construction had started: an administrative date with no effect on the wind farm, left off the axis.

DevelopmentConstructionOperationAhead (repowering horizon at 22 years)

Source: Renewable Energy Planning Database, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Open Government Licence v3.0. REPD ref 6327.

What the register tells us

The application was determined in about 12 months. A planning permission on this site expired in April 2025. That works out at 5.7 MW per turbine on average.

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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