Onshore wind · United Kingdom
Kilgallioch wind farm
Operational239 MWChecked 6 October 2026Last changed in the dataset 22 February 2018
The site
- Technology
- Onshore wind
- Capacity
- 239 MW
- Status
- Operational
- Operator or applicant
- Scottish Power Renewables
- Location
- (Arecloch Phase 2) land five kilometres to the south of Barrhill, five kilometres to the northeast of New Luce and 11km to the northwest of Kirkcowan, Dumfries and Galloway, United Kingdom
- Planning authority
- Scottish Government (S36)
- First operating
- 2017
- Turbines
- 96
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Timeline
- 5 March 2010 Planning application submitted
- 21 February 2013 Planning permission granted
- 28 July 2015 Construction started
- 15 December 2017 Operational
Incidents on the register at this site
- Worker dies after fall at Kilgallioch wind farm
- Wind turbine tower collapses at Kilgallioch Wind Farm, Ayrshire
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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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