North Yell Wind Farm (Garth Community Wind Farm)

5 turbines · operational · Shetland

Wind farm facts

StatusOperational
County / regionShetland
Turbines5
Installed capacity4.5 MW
Turbine capacity0.9 MW
Tip heightnot recorded
Operator (or applicant)Garth Wind (North Yell Development Council)
Turbine manufacturernot recorded
Turbine modelnot recorded

♻️ Project timeline

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

2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 Project timeline Application submitted May 2009 Permission granted April 2011 Under construction December 2016 Operational April 2017 Permission expired April 2021

From application to operation, this scheme took about 8 years.

Source: Renewable Energy Planning Database, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Open Government Licence v3.0. REPD ref 3745.

What the register tells us

The application was determined in about 23 months. Construction to first power took about 4 months. A planning permission on this site expired in April 2021. The scheme has been operating for about 9 years. That works out at 0.9 MW per turbine on average.