Onshore wind · United Kingdom
Sandy Knowe Wind Farm Extension
Awaiting Construction21.6 MWChecked 6 October 2026Last changed in the dataset 1 October 2025
The site
- Technology
- Onshore wind
- Capacity
- 21.6 MW
- Status
- Awaiting Construction (Planning Permission Granted)
- Operator or applicant
- Executive Resource Group
- Location
- Sandy Knowe Wind Farm, Kirkconnell, Sanquhar, Dumfries and Galloway, DG4 6JY, United Kingdom
- Planning authority
- Scottish Government (S36)
- Planning application
- ECU00003274
- Turbines
- 6, 149 m to tip
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Timeline
- 18 August 2022 Planning application submitted
- 26 August 2025 Planning permission granted
- 26 August 2030 Planning permission expired
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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