🌬️ Onshore wind farm

Sandy Knowe Wind Farm
Dumfries and Galloway

Recorded in WhichWindTurbine: 24 wind turbines in operation. Point the app at one of them to see its profile in real time.

24
turbines
81.6 MW
MW total
125 m
tip height

📍 24 turbines mapped — each dot is a turbine recorded in the database. Average position: 55.37156 N · 4.08655 W.

Sandy Knowe Wind Farm

24 turbines · operational · Dumfries and Galloway

Wind farm facts

StatusOperational
County / regionDumfries and Galloway
Turbines24
Installed capacity81.6 MW
Turbine capacitynot recorded
Tip height125 m
Operator (or applicant)ERG
Turbine manufacturerVestas
Turbine modelV136-4.5
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♻️ Project timeline

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

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  1. 1Aug 2018 — Application submitted
  2. 2Oct 2020 — Under construction
  3. 3Feb 2023 — Operational

The register also records a planning permission expiry in Jul 2023, 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 12079, Awaiting Construction): 6 turbines · 3.6 MW each · 149 m tip height · applicant Executive Resource Group. 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 6703.

What the register tells us

Construction to first power took about 28 months. A planning permission on this site expired in July 2023. The scheme has been operating for about 3 years. That works out at 3.4 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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