🌬️ Onshore wind farm

Pates Hill
Lothian

Recorded in WhichWindTurbine: 7 wind turbines in operation. Point the app at one of them to see its profile in real time.

7
turbines
14 MW
MW total
2 MW
per turbine

📍 7 turbines mapped — each dot is a turbine recorded in the database. Average position: 55.81102 N · 3.60493 W.

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
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♻️ Project timeline

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

→ ~20322010201520202025today1234
  1. 1Jul 2005 — Application submitted
  2. 2Jun 2006 — Permission granted
  3. 3Jun 2009 — Under construction
  4. 4Jan 2010 — Operational

The register also records a planning permission expiry in Jun 2011, after construction had started: an administrative date with no effect on the wind farm, left off the axis.

DevelopmentConstructionOperationAhead (repowering horizon at 22 years)

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The register links a second scheme on this site (REPD ref 3363, Application Withdrawn): 2 turbines · 3 MW each · applicant Longhill Wind Farm Ltd.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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Sources and dates

DataSourceExtract
Site, capacity, status, planning milestonesRenewable Energy Planning Database (DESNZ, Open Government Licence v3)Q2 2026, published 03/08/2026
Turbine positionsOpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)19/08/2026
Manufacturer and modelOpenStreetMap tags, unverified — REPD does not record turbine models. Known for 41 % of UK turbines (manufacturer) and 32 % (model); some values are propagated within a site and may be wrong.19/08/2026

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