West Hill, Flotta

1 turbines · operational · Orkney Islands

Wind farm facts

StatusOperational
County / regionOrkney Islands
Turbines1
Installed capacity2 MW
Turbine capacity2 MW
Tip heightnot recorded
Operator (or applicant)Scotrenewables (Scotland) Ltd
Turbine manufacturernot recorded
Turbine modelnot recorded

♻️ Project timeline

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

2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 Project timeline Application submitted April 2004 Permission granted December 2007 Operational July 2010

From application to operation, this scheme took about 6 years.

Source: Renewable Energy Planning Database, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Open Government Licence v3.0. REPD ref 2742.

What the register tells us

The application was determined in about 44 months. The scheme has been operating for about 16 years. That works out at 2 MW per turbine on average.

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