Onshore wind · United Kingdom
Thorfinn Wind Farm - NM2000
Operational2.3 MWChecked 6 October 2026Last changed in the dataset 5 October 2009
The site
- Technology
- Onshore wind
- Capacity
- 2.3 MW
- Status
- Operational
- Operator or applicant
- Vestas
- Location
- Burgar Hill and the Wards, Evie, Orkney, Orkney Islands, KW17 2PJ, United Kingdom
- Planning authority
- Orkney Islands
- Planning application
- 02/189/PPF
- First operating
- 2000
- Turbines
- 2
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Timeline
- 23 October 1998 Planning application submitted
- 22 November 1999 Planning permission granted
- 1 April 2000 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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