Onshore wind · United Kingdom
Sandy Knowe Wind Farm
Revised90 MWChecked 6 October 2026Last changed in the dataset 18 February 2015
The site
- Technology
- Onshore wind
- Capacity
- 90 MW
- Status
- Revised
- Operator or applicant
- Burcote Wind
- Location
- Upper Nithsdale, Dumfries and Galloway, United Kingdom
- Planning authority
- Scottish Government (S36)
- Turbines
- 30
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Timeline
- 7 December 2012 Planning application submitted
- 18 February 2015 Planning permission refused
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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