Onshore wind · United Kingdom
South Kyle Wind Farm
Operational240 MWChecked 6 October 2026Last changed in the dataset 16 January 2026
The site
- Technology
- Onshore wind
- Capacity
- 240 MW
- Status
- Operational
- Operator or applicant
- Vattenfall
- Location
- south of the B741, mainly within Kyle Forest and to the east of Dalmellington, Strathclyde, United Kingdom
- Planning authority
- Scottish Government (S36)
- Planning application
- EC00003109
- Appeal reference
- WIN-190-3
- First operating
- 2023
- Turbines
- 50, 150 m to tip
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Timeline
- 29 August 2013 Planning application submitted
- 5 February 2015 Appeal lodged
- 30 June 2017 Planning permission granted
- 30 June 2017 Appeal granted
- 1 July 2020 Construction started
- 1 June 2023 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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