Watsonhead Wind Farm

2 turbines · operational · Lanarkshire

Wind farm facts

StatusOperational
County / regionLanarkshire
Turbines2
Installed capacity8.4 MW
Turbine capacity4.2 MW
Tip height149.38 m
Operator (or applicant)Green Cat Renewables
Turbine manufacturerEnercon
Turbine modelE138

♻️ Project timeline

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

2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 Project timeline Application submitted February 2018 Permission granted February 2020 Permission expired February 2023 Operational October 2023

From application to operation, this scheme took about 5 years.

Source: Renewable Energy Planning Database, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Open Government Licence v3.0. REPD ref 15144.

What the register tells us

The application was determined in about 24 months. A planning permission on this site expired in February 2023. The scheme has been operating for about 3 years. That works out at 4.2 MW per turbine on average.

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