Methlick Farmers Wind Energy Project

6 turbines · operational · Grampian

Wind farm facts

StatusOperational
County / regionGrampian
Turbines6
Installed capacity12 MW
Turbine capacity2 MW
Tip heightnot recorded
Operator (or applicant)Orkney Sustainable Energy
Turbine manufacturernot recorded
Turbine modelnot recorded

♻️ Project timeline

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

2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 Project timeline Application submitted October 2006 Permission granted July 2007 Under construction March 2011 Operational December 2011

From application to operation, this scheme took about 5 years.

Source: Renewable Energy Planning Database, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Open Government Licence v3.0. REPD ref 3548.

What the register tells us

The application was determined in about 9 months. Construction to first power took about 9 months. The scheme has been operating for about 15 years. That works out at 2 MW per turbine on average.

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