Onshore wind · United Kingdom
Windy Rig Wind Farm
Revised43 MWChecked 6 October 2026Last changed in the dataset 11 January 2022
The site
- Technology
- Onshore wind
- Capacity
- 43 MW
- Status
- Revised
- Operator or applicant
- Statkraft
- Location
- Windy Rig, Approx 8km NE Of, Carsphairn, Castle Douglas, Dumfries and Galloway, DG7 3, United Kingdom
- Planning authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Planning application
- 15/P/2/0155
- Turbines
- 12, 125 m to tip
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Timeline
- 20 May 2015 Planning application submitted
- 5 November 2018 Planning permission granted
- 5 November 2023 Planning permission expired
Incidents on the register at this site
None found. The register holds no published incident that names Windy Rig Wind Farm. If you know of one, report it (confidential reports are anonymised).
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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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