Thorfinn Wind Farm - NM2000

2 turbines · operational · Orkney Islands

Wind farm facts

StatusOperational
County / regionOrkney Islands
Turbines2
Installed capacity2.3 MW
Turbine capacity1.15 MW
Tip heightnot recorded
Operator (or applicant)Vestas
Turbine manufacturernot recorded
Turbine modelnot recorded

♻️ Project timeline

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

1997 1999 2001 2003 2005 2007 2009 2011 2013 Project timeline Application submitted October 1998 Permission granted November 1999 Operational April 2000 Permission expired November 2013

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 3308.

What the register tells us

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 1.15 MW per turbine on average.

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