Onshore wind · United Kingdom
Green Rigg
Operational36 MWChecked 6 October 2026Last changed in the dataset 18 December 2014
The site
- Technology
- Onshore wind
- Capacity
- 36 MW
- Status
- Operational
- Operator or applicant
- EDF/China General Nuclear Power Corporation
- Location
- Near the A68 and Sweethope Lough, Northumberland, United Kingdom
- Planning authority
- Northumberland
- Planning application
- 20060040
- First operating
- 2012
- Turbines
- 18
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Timeline
- 12 January 2006 Planning application submitted
- 15 January 2008 Planning permission refused
- 26 March 2010 Planning permission granted
- 26 March 2010 Appeal granted
- 1 December 2011 Construction started
- 28 November 2012 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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