🌬️ Onshore wind farm

Sanquhar 2 Community Wind Farm
Dumfries and Galloway

Recorded in WhichWindTurbine: 44 wind turbines. Point the app at one of them to see its profile in real time.

44
turbines
308 MW
MW total
200 m
tip height

📍 44 turbines mapped — each dot is a turbine recorded in the database. Average position: 55.30743 N · 4.05251 W.

Sanquhar 2 Community Wind Farm

44 turbines · under construction · Dumfries and Galloway

Wind farm facts

StatusUnder Construction
County / regionDumfries and Galloway
Turbines44
Installed capacity308 MW
Turbine capacitynot recorded
Tip height200 m
Operator (or applicant)Community Windpower
Turbine manufacturerVestas
Turbine modelV162 (variant not established)
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✓ Verified reference — turbine make and model

Vestas · V162 (variant not established) · 44 turbines

Source: CWP Energy, the developer, 2026-04, read on 2026-09-15. Corroborated by 3 further sources. OpenStreetMap tags shown elsewhere on this page differ from this record; the sources above prevail.

♻️ Project timeline

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

2020202220242026today123
  1. 1Mar 2019 — Application submitted
  2. 2Aug 2023 — Permission granted
  3. 3Jan 2025 — Under construction

The register also records a planning permission expiry in Aug 2028, 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 6629.

What the register tells us

The application was determined in about 53 months. A planning permission on this site expired in August 2028. That works out at 7 MW per turbine on average.

Nearby

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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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