Onshore wind · United Kingdom
Whitelee
Operational322 MWChecked 6 October 2026Last changed in the dataset 20 May 2010
The site
- Technology
- Onshore wind
- Capacity
- 322 MW
- Status
- Operational
- Operator or applicant
- CRE Energy/ Scottish Power
- Location
- Eaglesham Moor, Whitelee Forest, Fenwick Moor, East Kilbride, South of Glasgow, Strathclyde, United Kingdom
- Planning authority
- Scottish Government (S36)
- Planning application
- 2002/0001/EB
- First operating
- 2007
- Turbines
- 140
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Timeline
- 23 January 2002 Planning application submitted
- 1 April 2006 Planning permission granted
- 1 December 2006 Construction started
- 14 December 2007 Operational
Incidents on the register at this site
- Worker dies after fall from turbine at Whitelee windfarm near Glasgow
- Fire destroys turbine at Whitelee windfarm near Glasgow
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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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