← Back to Orkney Islands

Energy sites / United Kingdom / Orkney Islands

Onshore wind · United Kingdom

Flotta

Operational1.8 MWChecked 6 October 2026Last changed in the dataset 27 February 2012

Technology
Onshore wind
Capacity
1.8 MW
Status
Operational
Operator or applicant
Scotwind (Scottish Renewables)
Location
Flotta,Westhill, Orkney, Orkney Islands, United Kingdom
Planning authority
Orkney Islands
Planning application
02/241/PPF
First operating
2010
Turbines
1

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

  • 31 May 2002 Planning application submitted
  • 1 September 2002 Planning permission granted
  • 1 June 2010 Operational

None found. The register holds no published incident that names Flotta. 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.