Onshore wind · United Kingdom
Viking Wind Farm
Operational443 MWChecked 6 October 2026Last changed in the dataset 24 January 2022
The site
- Technology
- Onshore wind
- Capacity
- 443 MW
- Status
- Operational
- Operator or applicant
- Viking Energy Wind Farm
- Location
- Lang Kame, Shetland Island, Shetland, United Kingdom
- Planning authority
- Scottish Government (S36)
- Planning application
- ECU00000723
- First operating
- 2024
- Turbines
- 103, 155 m to tip
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Timeline
- 14 November 2018 Planning application submitted
- 24 May 2019 Planning permission granted
- 1 August 2020 Construction started
- 1 September 2024 Operational
Incidents on the register at this site
- Blade damaged on Vestas turbine at Viking wind farm
- Fatality at Viking wind farm site in Shetland Islands
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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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