Onshore wind · United Kingdom
Kirkby Moor
Operational4.8 MWChecked 6 October 2026Last changed in the dataset 5 August 2019
The site
- Technology
- Onshore wind
- Capacity
- 4.8 MW
- Status
- Operational
- Operator or applicant
- Npower Renewables
- Location
- approximately 4km from Ulverston, within a Site of Special Scientific Interest, Cumbria, United Kingdom
- Planning authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Planning application
- Unknown
- First operating
- 1993
- Turbines
- 12
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Timeline
- 1 January 1993 Operational
- 19 December 2014 Planning application submitted
- 13 June 2017 Planning permission granted
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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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