Onshore wind · United Kingdom
Scout Moor Windfarm
Operational65 MWChecked 6 October 2026Last changed in the dataset 27 February 2018
The site
- Technology
- Onshore wind
- Capacity
- 65 MW
- Status
- Operational
- Operator or applicant
- Munich Re (previously Peel)
- Location
- Land at Scout Moor , off Edenfield Road , Rochdale, Lancashire, United Kingdom
- Planning authority
- Rossendale
- First operating
- 2008
- Turbines
- 26
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Timeline
- 30 June 2003 Planning application submitted
- 25 May 2005 Planning permission granted
- 1 September 2007 Construction started
- 1 June 2008 Operational
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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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