Onshore wind · United Kingdom
Swaffham Plashes II
Operational1.8 MWChecked 6 October 2026Last changed in the dataset 22 September 2004
The site
- Technology
- Onshore wind
- Capacity
- 1.8 MW
- Status
- Operational
- Operator or applicant
- Ecotricity
- Location
- Old Sporle Road Swaffham, Norfolk, United Kingdom
- Planning authority
- Breckland
- Planning application
- 3PL/2001/1505/F
- First operating
- 2003
- Turbines
- 1
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Timeline
- 11 December 2001 Planning application submitted
- 30 September 2002 Planning permission granted
- 15 July 2003 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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