West Benhar wind farm

8 turbines · operational · Strathclyde

Wind farm facts

StatusOperational
County / regionStrathclyde
Turbines8
Installed capacity27.2 MW
Turbine capacity3.4 MW
Tip heightnot recorded
Operator (or applicant)EDF Energy Renewables
Turbine manufacturernot recorded
Turbine modelnot recorded

♻️ Project timeline

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

2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 Project timeline Application submitted July 2013 Permission granted September 2015 Under construction March 2021 Operational January 2023

From application to operation, this scheme took about 10 years.

Source: Renewable Energy Planning Database, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Open Government Licence v3.0. REPD ref 4307.

What the register tells us

The application was determined in about 26 months. Construction to first power took about 22 months. The scheme has been operating for about 3 years. That works out at 3.4 MW per turbine on average.

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