🌬️ Onshore wind farm

Windy Rig Wind Farm
Dumfries and Galloway

Recorded in WhichWindTurbine: 12 wind turbines. Point the app at one of them to see its profile in real time.

12
turbines
43 MW
MW total
3 MW
per turbine
125 m
tip height

📍 12 turbines mapped — each dot is a turbine recorded in the database. Average position: 55.27363 N · 4.17532 W.

Windy Rig Wind Farm

12 turbines · revised · Dumfries and Galloway

Wind farm facts

StatusRevised
County / regionDumfries and Galloway
Turbines12
Installed capacity43 MW
Turbine capacity3 MW
Tip height125 m
Operator (or applicant)Statkraft
Turbine manufacturerVestas
Turbine modelnot recorded
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♻️ Project timeline

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

201620182020202220242026123
  1. 1May 2015 — Application submitted
  2. 2Nov 2018 — Permission granted
  3. 3Nov 2023 — Permission expired

DevelopmentConstructionOperationAhead (repowering horizon at 22 years)

The register links a second scheme on this site (REPD ref 7562, Operational): 12 turbines · 125 m tip height · applicant Statkraft UK. Two schemes on one site usually mean a repowering or an extension — to be confirmed with the operator.

Source: Renewable Energy Planning Database, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Open Government Licence v3.0. REPD ref 4430.

What the register tells us

The application was determined in about 42 months. A planning permission on this site expired in November 2023. That works out at 3.58 MW per turbine on average.

Nearby

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Sources and dates

DataSourceExtract
Site, capacity, status, planning milestonesRenewable Energy Planning Database (DESNZ, Open Government Licence v3)Q2 2026, published 03/08/2026
Turbine positionsOpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)19/08/2026
Manufacturer and modelOpenStreetMap tags, unverified — REPD does not record turbine models. Known for 41 % of UK turbines (manufacturer) and 32 % (model); some values are propagated within a site and may be wrong.19/08/2026

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