National Wind Turbine Test Site

2 turbines · operational · Strathclyde

Wind farm facts

StatusOperational
County / regionStrathclyde
Turbines2
Installed capacity4.7 MW
Turbine capacity2.3 MW
Tip heightnot recorded
Operator (or applicant)NEL
Turbine manufacturernot recorded
Turbine modelnot recorded

♻️ Project timeline

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

1998 2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012 2014 2016 2018 2020 Project timeline Application submitted August 1999 Permission granted August 2000 Operational February 2001 Permission expired August 2019

From application to operation, this scheme took about 2 years.

Source: Renewable Energy Planning Database, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Open Government Licence v3.0. REPD ref 3093.

What the register tells us

The application was determined in about 12 months. A planning permission on this site expired in August 2019. The scheme has been operating for about 25 years. At that age, wind farms commonly become candidates for repowering or life extension — nothing in the register confirms such a plan here. That works out at 2.35 MW per turbine on average.

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