Onshore wind · United Kingdom
Carn Hill
Operational13.8 MWChecked 6 October 2026Last changed in the dataset 3 January 2017
The site
- Technology
- Onshore wind
- Capacity
- 13.8 MW
- Status
- Operational
- Operator or applicant
- Gaelectric Developments/ CGN Europe Energy
- Location
- Lands north of Slievetrue Road, Carn Hill/Rea Hill, Newtownabbey, Co Antrim, Co. Antrim, United Kingdom
- Planning authority
- Antrim and Newtownabbey
- Planning application
- U/2006/0054/F
- First operating
- 2013
- Turbines
- 6
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Timeline
- 17 February 2006 Planning application submitted
- 12 February 2010 Planning permission granted
- 1 May 2012 Construction started
- 8 May 2013 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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