🌬️ Onshore wind farm

Skelmonae Wind Farm
Grampian

Recorded in WhichWindTurbine: 4 wind turbines in operation. Point the app at one of them to see its profile in real time.

4
turbines
3.2 MW
MW total
0.9 MW
per turbine

📍 4 turbines mapped — each dot is a turbine recorded in the database. Average position: 57.41806 N · 2.18202 W.

Skelmonae Wind Farm

4 turbines · operational · Grampian

Wind farm facts

StatusOperational
County / regionGrampian
Turbines4
Installed capacity3.2 MW
Turbine capacity0.9 MW
Tip heightnot recorded
Operator (or applicant)Private Developer
Turbine manufacturernot recorded
Turbine modelnot recorded
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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. 1Jul 2007 — Application submitted
  2. 2Feb 2009 — Permission granted
  3. 3Dec 2009 — Operational

The register also records a planning permission expiry in Feb 2016, after commissioning: an administrative date with no effect on the operating wind farm, left off the axis.

DevelopmentConstructionOperationAhead (repowering horizon at 22 years)

From application to operation, this scheme took about 2 years.

Source: Renewable Energy Planning Database, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Open Government Licence v3.0. REPD ref 3075.

What the register tells us

The application was determined in about 19 months. A planning permission on this site expired in February 2016. The scheme has been operating for about 17 years. That works out at 0.8 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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