Rothiesholm

3 turbines · operational · Orkney Islands

Wind farm facts

StatusOperational
County / regionOrkney Islands
Turbines3
Installed capacity2.7 MW
Turbine capacity0.9 MW
Tip heightnot recorded
Operator (or applicant)Longearth Ltd / Farm Energy
Turbine manufacturernot recorded
Turbine modelnot recorded

♻️ Project timeline

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

2000 2001 2002 2003 Project timeline Application submitted January 2001 Permission granted May 2001 Operational April 2002

From application to operation, this scheme took about 1 year.

Source: Renewable Energy Planning Database, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Open Government Licence v3.0. REPD ref 3529.

What the register tells us

The application was determined in about 4 months. The scheme has been operating for about 24 years. At that age, wind farms commonly become candidates for repowering or life extension — nothing in the register confirms such a plan here. That works out at 0.9 MW per turbine on average.

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