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Onshore wind · United Kingdom

Great Orton

Operational4 MWChecked 6 October 2026Last changed in the dataset 13 July 2006

Technology
Onshore wind
Capacity
4 MW
Status
Operational
Operator or applicant
Cumbria Wind Farms
Location
Near Carlisle Cumbria, Cumbria, United Kingdom
Planning authority
Cumberland
First operating
1999
Turbines
6

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  • 26 February 1998 Planning application submitted
  • 15 June 1999 Planning permission granted
  • 21 December 1999 Operational

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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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