Rothes Wind Farm (Extension) (II)

18 turbines · operational · Grampian

Wind farm facts

StatusOperational
County / regionGrampian
Turbines18
Installed capacity41.4 MW
Turbine capacity2.3 MW
Tip heightnot recorded
Operator (or applicant)Fred Olsen Renewables
Turbine manufacturernot recorded
Turbine modelnot recorded

♻️ Project timeline

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

2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 Project timeline Application submitted December 2007 Permission granted January 2010 Under construction April 2012 Operational April 2013

From application to operation, this scheme took about 6 years.

Source: Renewable Energy Planning Database, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Open Government Licence v3.0. REPD ref 3951.

What the register tells us

The application was determined in about 25 months. Construction to first power took about 12 months. The scheme has been operating for about 13 years. That works out at 2.3 MW per turbine on average.

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