Onshore wind · United Kingdom
Brochloch Rig 1 (formerly Windy Standard)
Operational21.6 MWChecked 6 October 2026Last changed in the dataset 4 September 2018
The site
- Technology
- Onshore wind
- Capacity
- 21.6 MW
- Status
- Operational
- Operator or applicant
- Fred Olsen Renewables
- Location
- Windy Standard, Dumfries and Galloway, United Kingdom
- Planning authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- First operating
- 1996
- Turbines
- 36
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Timeline
- 24 July 1995 Planning application submitted
- 7 March 1996 Planning permission granted
- 1 October 1996 Operational
Incidents on the register at this site
None found. The register holds no published incident that names Brochloch Rig 1 (formerly Windy Standard). If you know of one, report it (confidential reports are anonymised).
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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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