Whiteside Hill

11 turbines · operational · Dumfries and Galloway

Wind farm facts

StatusOperational
County / regionDumfries and Galloway
Turbines11
Installed capacity25.3 MW
Turbine capacity2.3 MW
Tip heightnot recorded
Operator (or applicant)Whiteside Hill Farm (Scotland)
Turbine manufacturerVestas
Turbine modelGE 2.85-103

♻️ Project timeline

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

2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 Project timeline Application submitted June 2006 Permission granted February 2013 Under construction January 2016 Permission expired February 2018 Operational April 2018

From application to operation, this scheme took about 12 years.

Source: Renewable Energy Planning Database, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Open Government Licence v3.0. REPD ref 4502.

What the register tells us

The application was determined in about 80 months. Construction to first power took about 27 months. A planning permission on this site expired in February 2018. The scheme has been operating for about 8 years. That works out at 2.3 MW per turbine on average.

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