Onshore wind · United Kingdom
Shinness Wind Farm
Application Submitted106 MWChecked 6 October 2026Last changed in the dataset 11 June 2024
The site
- Technology
- Onshore wind
- Capacity
- 106 MW
- Status
- Application Submitted (Planning Application Submitted)
- Operator or applicant
- Shinness Wind Farm Limited
- Location
- Shinness Estate, Sutherland, Lairg, Highland, IV27 4DW, United Kingdom
- Planning authority
- Scottish Government (S36)
- Planning application
- ECU00004597
- Turbines
- 16, 200 m to tip
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Timeline
- 15 April 2024 Planning application submitted
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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