Onshore wind · United Kingdom
Wharrels Hill Wind Farm
Operational10.4 MWChecked 6 October 2026Last changed in the dataset 6 May 2009
The site
- Technology
- Onshore wind
- Capacity
- 10.4 MW
- Status
- Operational
- Operator or applicant
- Wharrels Hill Windfarm Ltd/ National Windpower
- Location
- Wharrels Hill Bothel Cumbria, Cumbria, United Kingdom
- Planning authority
- Cumberland
- Planning application
- 2/2001/0008
- Appeal reference
- APP/G0908/A/01/1075972
- First operating
- 2007
- Turbines
- 8
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Timeline
- 23 December 2000 Planning application submitted
- 19 June 2002 Planning permission granted
- 1 April 2007 Construction started
- 7 August 2007 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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