Spurness Wind Farm Repowering

4 turbines · decommissioned · Orkney Islands

Wind farm facts

StatusDecommissioned
County / regionOrkney Islands
Turbines4
Installed capacity11 MW
Turbine capacity2.75 MW
Tip heightnot recorded
Operator (or applicant)Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE)
Turbine manufacturernot recorded
Turbine modelnot recorded

♻️ Project timeline

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

1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 Original scheme Permission expired January 2000 Application submitted September 2002 Permission granted January 2003 Operational December 2004 Later scheme Application submitted March 2011 Permission granted July 2011 Permission expired July 2011 Under construction February 2012 Operational December 2012

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

The register links a second scheme on this site (REPD ref 3837, Operational): 5 turbines · 2 MW each · applicant Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE). 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 4036.

What the register tells us

The application was determined in about 4 months. A planning permission on this site expired in January 2000. The scheme has been operating for about 22 years. At that age, wind farms commonly become candidates for repowering or life extension — nothing in the register confirms such a plan here. That works out at 2.75 MW per turbine on average.

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