Onshore wind · United Kingdom
Bessy Bell Extension
Operational9 MWChecked 6 October 2026Last changed in the dataset 2 August 2017
The site
- Technology
- Onshore wind
- Capacity
- 9 MW
- Status
- Operational
- Operator or applicant
- Bessy Bell Windfarm
- Location
- Bessy Bell Moutain , 5km south of Newtownstewart, 17km south of Strabane and 9km northwest of Omagh, Co. Tyrone, United Kingdom
- Planning authority
- Derry City and Strabane
- First operating
- 2008
- Turbines
- 6
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Timeline
- 3 June 2003 Planning application submitted
- 10 January 2005 Planning permission granted
- 24 April 2008 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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