← Back to Highland

Energy sites / United Kingdom / Highland

Onshore wind · United Kingdom

Durran Mains

Application Refused19.5 MWChecked 6 October 2026Last changed in the dataset 13 September 2011

Technology
Onshore wind
Capacity
19.5 MW
Status
Application Refused (Planning Permission Refused)
Operator or applicant
Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE)
Location
Land at Mains of Durran Castletown Thurso, Highland, United Kingdom
Planning authority
Highland
Planning application
08/00386/FULCA
Turbines
13

View on OpenStreetMap. The larger dot is this site; the others are sites within 40 km.

  • 26 August 2008 Planning application submitted
  • 22 November 2010 Planning permission refused

None found. The register holds no published incident that names Durran Mains. If you know of one, report it (confidential reports are anonymised).

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.

What fails at onshore wind farms

Own, insure or lend to this site or others like it? A portfolio safety record checks every site in a list against the register, free; the paid records add the site, operator, cause, downtime and loss behind each incident.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0 (Renewable Energy Planning Database, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero). The dataset. The register adds only the incidents and the counts.