Sanquhar Community Windfarm

9 turbines · operational · Dumfries and Galloway

Wind farm facts

StatusOperational
County / regionDumfries and Galloway
Turbines9
Installed capacity32.4 MW
Turbine capacity3.4 MW
Tip heightnot recorded
Operator (or applicant)Community Windpower
Turbine manufacturerVestas
Turbine modelV112

♻️ Project timeline

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

2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 Project timeline Application submitted April 2010 Permission granted February 2013 Under construction May 2015 Permission expired February 2017 Operational February 2018

From application to operation, this scheme took about 8 years.

Source: Renewable Energy Planning Database, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Open Government Licence v3.0. REPD ref 4441.

What the register tells us

The application was determined in about 34 months. Construction to first power took about 33 months. A planning permission on this site expired in February 2017. The scheme has been operating for about 8 years. That works out at 3.6 MW per turbine on average.

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