Minsca

16 turbines · operational · Dumfries and Galloway

Wind farm facts

StatusOperational
County / regionDumfries and Galloway
Turbines16
Installed capacity36.8 MW
Turbine capacity2.3 MW
Tip heightnot recorded
Operator (or applicant)Airtricity
Turbine manufacturernot recorded
Turbine modelnot recorded

♻️ Project timeline

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

2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012 2014 2016 2018 Project timeline Application submitted August 2003 Permission granted June 2004 Operational March 2008 Permission expired June 2017

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 4517.

What the register tells us

The application was determined in about 10 months. A planning permission on this site expired in June 2017. The scheme has been operating for about 18 years. That works out at 2.3 MW per turbine on average.

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