Offshore wind · United Kingdom

Forthwind

RevisedChecked 6 October 2026Last changed in the dataset 22 August 2019

The site

Technology: Offshore wind
Status: Revised
Operator or applicant: Cierco
Location: Forth of Firth, Offshore, United Kingdom
Planning authority: Marine Scotland
Turbines: 1, 280 m to tip

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Timeline

6 July 2015 Planning application submitted
21 December 2016 Planning permission granted

Incidents on the register at this site

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

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Incidents at offshore wind farms in the United Kingdom

The register holds 54 incidents at offshore wind farms in the United Kingdom, 22 of them fires, and 297 worldwide. Counts of incidents in published reporting, not rates.

Crane topples on Scout Moor wind farm projectEIR-1624 · 2026
Fire destroys turbine at Whitelee windfarm near GlasgowEIR-1157 · 2026
Turbine blade detaches at RWE's Brechfa Forest West wind farm in WalesEIR-0874 · 2026
Nordex turbine damaged by suspected lightning strike at UK wind farmEIR-0732 · 2026
Wind turbine fire at Kirkby Moor Wind Farm in CumbriaEIR-0363 · 2026

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