← Back to Dumfries and Galloway

Energy sites / United Kingdom / Dumfries and Galloway

Onshore wind · United Kingdom

Sunnyside wind cluster

Operational1 MWChecked 6 October 2026Last changed in the dataset 26 October 2016

Technology
Onshore wind
Capacity
1 MW
Status
Operational
Operator or applicant
Sunnyside Wind Farm
Location
Land at Sunnyside, Sanquhar, Dumfries and Galloway, DG4 6JP, United Kingdom
Planning authority
Dumfries and Galloway
Planning application
13/P/3/0211
First operating
2015
Turbines
2

View on OpenStreetMap. The larger dot is this site; the others are sites within 40 km.

  • 5 April 2013 Planning application submitted
  • 19 December 2013 Planning permission granted
  • 15 June 2015 Construction started
  • 15 November 2015 Operational

None found. The register holds no published incident that names Sunnyside wind cluster. If you know of one, report it (confidential reports are anonymised).

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.

What fails at onshore wind farms

Own, insure or lend to this site or others like it? A portfolio safety record checks every site in a list against the register, free; the paid records add the site, operator, cause, downtime and loss behind each incident.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0 (Renewable Energy Planning Database, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero). The dataset. The register adds only the incidents and the counts.