Pates Hill

7 turbines · operational · Lothian

Wind farm facts

StatusOperational
County / regionLothian
Turbines7
Installed capacity14 MW
Turbine capacity2 MW
Tip heightnot recorded
Operator (or applicant)Your Energy
Turbine manufacturerVestas
Turbine modelV80

♻️ Project timeline

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

2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 Original scheme Application submitted July 2005 Permission granted June 2006 Under construction June 2009 Operational January 2010 Permission expired June 2011 Later scheme Application submitted July 2013

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

The register links a second scheme on this site (REPD ref 3363, Application Withdrawn): 2 turbines · 3 MW each · applicant Longhill Wind Farm Ltd. Two schemes on one site usually mean a repowering or an extension — to be confirmed with the operator.

Source: Renewable Energy Planning Database, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Open Government Licence v3.0. REPD ref 3232.

What the register tells us

The application was determined in about 11 months. Construction to first power took about 7 months. A planning permission on this site expired in June 2011. The scheme has been operating for about 16 years. That works out at 2 MW per turbine on average.

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