Onshore wind · United Kingdom
Sober Hill Wind Farm
Operational15 MWChecked 6 October 2026Last changed in the dataset 20 August 2014
The site
- Technology
- Onshore wind
- Capacity
- 15 MW
- Status
- Operational
- Operator or applicant
- West Coast Energy
- Location
- Land North Of Sober Hill Farm Stoneknowle Hill North Newbald, Humberside, United Kingdom
- Planning authority
- East Riding of Yorkshire
- Planning application
- 08/04816/STPLFE
- First operating
- 2013
- Turbines
- 6
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Timeline
- 3 October 2008 Planning application submitted
- 3 April 2009 Planning permission refused
- 19 March 2010 Planning permission granted
- 19 March 2010 Appeal granted
- 1 March 2012 Construction started
- 1 September 2013 Operational
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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