The Michelin Tyre Factory - Ballymena

2 turbines · operational · Co. Antrim

Wind farm facts

StatusOperational
County / regionCo. Antrim
Turbines2
Installed capacity4.6 MW
Turbine capacity2.3 MW
Tip heightnot recorded
Operator (or applicant)Ecotricity
Turbine manufacturernot recorded
Turbine modelnot recorded

♻️ Project timeline

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

2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 Project timeline Application submitted July 2009 Permission granted February 2010 Under construction September 2012 Operational February 2013 Permission expired February 2014

From application to operation, this scheme took about 4 years.

Source: Renewable Energy Planning Database, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Open Government Licence v3.0. REPD ref 3680.

What the register tells us

The application was determined in about 7 months. Construction to first power took about 5 months. A planning permission on this site expired in February 2014. The scheme has been operating for about 13 years. That works out at 2.3 MW per turbine on average.

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