Recorded in WhichWindTurbine: 1 wind turbine in operation. Point the app at one of them to see its profile in real time.
📍 1 turbine mapped — each dot is a turbine recorded in the database. Average position: 59.11167 N · 3.14305 W.
1 turbines · operational · Orkney Islands
| Status | Operational |
|---|---|
| County / region | Orkney Islands |
| Turbines | 1 |
| Installed capacity | 1.5 MW |
| Turbine capacity | 1.5 MW |
| Tip height | not recorded |
| Operator (or applicant) | Vestas |
| Turbine manufacturer | not recorded |
| Turbine model | not recorded |
Dated milestones from the UK Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD), Q2 2026 — not estimates.
The register also records a planning permission expiry in Nov 2013, 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 3120.
The application was determined in about 13 months. A planning permission on this site expired in November 2013. The scheme has been operating for about 26 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 1.5 MW per turbine on average.
See all wind farms in Orkney Islands.
| Data | Source | Extract |
|---|---|---|
| Site, capacity, status, planning milestones | Renewable Energy Planning Database (DESNZ, Open Government Licence v3) | Q2 2026, published 03/08/2026 |
| Turbine positions | OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) | 19/08/2026 |
| Manufacturer and model | OpenStreetMap 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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