West Browncastle

12 turbines · operational · Strathclyde

Wind farm facts

StatusOperational
County / regionStrathclyde
Turbines12
Installed capacity30 MW
Turbine capacity2.5 MW
Tip heightnot recorded
Operator (or applicant)Falck Renewables
Turbine manufacturernot recorded
Turbine modelnot recorded

♻️ Project timeline

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

2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 Project timeline Application submitted October 2010 Permission granted July 2012 Under construction February 2013 Permission expired July 2013 Operational June 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 4427.

What the register tells us

The application was determined in about 21 months. Construction to first power took about 16 months. A planning permission on this site expired in July 2013. The scheme has been operating for about 12 years. That works out at 2.5 MW per turbine on average.

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