Scout Moor Windfarm

26 turbines · operational · Lancashire

Wind farm facts

StatusOperational
County / regionLancashire
Turbines26
Installed capacity65 MW
Turbine capacity2.5 MW
Tip heightnot recorded
Operator (or applicant)Munich Re (previously Peel)
Turbine manufacturernot recorded
Turbine modelnot recorded

♻️ Project timeline

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

2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012 2014 2016 2018 Original scheme Application submitted June 2003 Permission granted May 2005 Under construction September 2007 Operational June 2008 Later scheme Application submitted April 2015 Refused July 2017

From application to operation, this scheme took about 5 years.

The register links a second scheme on this site (REPD ref 4188, Application Refused): 16 turbines · 2.3 MW each · 115 m tip height · applicant Peel Holdings and UUGE. 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 3177.

What the register tells us

The application was determined in about 23 months. Construction to first power took about 9 months. The scheme has been operating for about 18 years. That works out at 2.5 MW per turbine on average.

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