Onshore wind · United Kingdom
Beinn Ghlas Wind Farm
Operational7.8 MWChecked 6 October 2026Last changed in the dataset 27 April 2006
The site
- Technology
- Onshore wind
- Capacity
- 7.8 MW
- Status
- Operational
- Operator or applicant
- RWE npower
- Location
- Land at Carn Gaibhre, Argyle and Bute, Strathclyde, United Kingdom
- Planning authority
- Argyll and Bute
- First operating
- 1999
- Turbines
- 14
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Timeline
- 7 May 1997 Planning application submitted
- 21 August 1998 Planning permission granted
- 25 June 1999 Operational
Incidents on the register at this site
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Incidents at onshore wind farms in the United Kingdom
The register holds 54 incidents at onshore wind farms in the United Kingdom, 22 of them fires, and 297 worldwide. Counts of incidents in published reporting, not rates.
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