Onshore wind · United Kingdom
Orkney’s Community Wind Farm Project - Qanterness
Awaiting Construction28.8 MWChecked 6 October 2026Last changed in the dataset 27 October 2022
The site
- Technology
- Onshore wind
- Capacity
- 28.8 MW
- Status
- Awaiting Construction (Planning Permission Granted)
- Operator or applicant
- Orkney Islands Council
- Location
- Quanterness, St. Ola, Kirkwall, Orkney Isles, Orkney Islands, KW15 1TY, United Kingdom
- Planning authority
- Orkney Islands
- Planning application
- 20/037/TPPMAJ
- Turbines
- 6, 149.9 m to tip
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Timeline
- 18 February 2020 Planning application submitted
- 21 December 2021 Planning permission granted
- 21 December 2031 Planning permission expired
Incidents on the register at this site
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Incidents at onshore wind farms in the United Kingdom
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