Onshore wind · United Kingdom
Gawnsmoss Cluster
Operational2.4 MWChecked 6 October 2026Last changed in the dataset 27 March 2017
The site
- Technology
- Onshore wind
- Capacity
- 2.4 MW
- Status
- Operational
- Operator or applicant
- Farm Energy Consulting
- Location
- Site at Cairnhill Banff, Aberdeenshire, AB45 3BS, United Kingdom
- Planning authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Planning application
- APP/2012/2406
- Appeal reference
- PPA-110-2248
- First operating
- 2017
- Turbines
- 3, 79 m to tip
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Timeline
- 10 October 2012 Planning application submitted
- 2 October 2014 Planning permission refused
- 2 December 2014 Appeal lodged
- 11 March 2015 Planning permission granted
- 11 March 2015 Appeal granted
- 15 October 2016 Construction started
- 27 March 2017 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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