🌬️ Onshore wind farm

Pencloe Wind Farm
East Ayrshire

Recorded in WhichWindTurbine: 18 wind turbines. Point the app at one of them to see its profile in real time.

18
turbines
81 MW
MW total
4.5 MW
per turbine
149.9 m
tip height

📍 18 turbines mapped — each dot is a turbine recorded in the database. Average position: 55.35374 N · 4.25033 W.

Pencloe Wind Farm

18 turbines · under construction · East Ayrshire

Wind farm facts

StatusUnder Construction
County / regionEast Ayrshire
Turbines18
Installed capacity81 MW
Turbine capacity4.5 MW
Tip height149.9 m
Operator (or applicant)North British Wind / Invenergy
Turbine manufacturerVestas
Turbine modelV136-4.5
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✓ Verified reference — turbine make and model

Vestas · V136-4.5 · 18 turbines · 4.5 MW each · rotor 136 m

Source: Vestas, commande d'Invenergy (via Windtech International), 2024, read on 2026-09-19. Corroborated by 2 further sources. Where OpenStreetMap tags differ, this record prevails.

♻️ Project timeline

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

201620182020202220242026today1234
  1. 1Feb 2015 — Application submitted
  2. 2Dec 2018 — Permission granted
  3. 3Dec 2018 — Granted on appeal
  4. 4Feb 2024 — Under construction

The register also records a planning permission expiry in Aug 2027, after construction had started: an administrative date with no effect on the wind farm, left off the axis.

DevelopmentConstructionOperationAhead (repowering horizon at 22 years)

Source: Renewable Energy Planning Database, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Open Government Licence v3.0. REPD ref 4480.

What the register tells us

The application was determined in about 46 months. Permission was ultimately granted on appeal in December 2018. A planning permission on this site expired in August 2027. That works out at 4.5 MW per turbine on average.

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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