Onshore wind · United Kingdom
Viking Wind Farm
Revised370 MWChecked 6 October 2026Last changed in the dataset 25 June 2019
The site
- Technology
- Onshore wind
- Capacity
- 370 MW
- Status
- Revised
- Operator or applicant
- Viking Energy / Scottish and Southern
- Location
- Lang Kames, Shetland Island, Shetland, United Kingdom
- Planning authority
- Scottish Government (S36)
- Turbines
- 103
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Timeline
- 20 May 2009 Planning application submitted
- 4 April 2012 Planning permission granted
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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