Kilgallioch Wind Farm is a 96 turbine
wind farm
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South Ayrshire
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Scotland
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with a total capacity of up to 239
megawatts
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(MW). Consent granted by the Scottish Government in February 2013 with construction starting in 2015 and completed in 2017. The wind farm contains 70 km of internal tracks, and a surface area of roughly 32 km2.
Incidents
On 13 January 2017 a turbine under construction catastrophically collapsed during a storm.
On 15 March 2017 Portuguese construction worker António João Linares, who was working for turbine manufacturer Gamesa, was killed when he fell 8 metres within a tower.
History
Project history
The wind farm construction was completed and began operating in 2017. SPR have identified this area to the south of Kilgallioch Windfarm as having great potential to be an extension to the site.
A met mast was installed at High Eldrig in 2018 as a part of the development process, the mast was used to gather information on wind conditions at the site.
In April 2019 a scoping report was sent to the Scottish Government’s Energy Consent Unit.
Scottish Power Renewables (SPR) submitted an Addendum (Al1) to this applicant request for authorization to remove proposed solar arrays from the design site. Al1 was then advertised and consulted from January to February 2021.
Following the consultation with
Historic Environment Scotland
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(HES) in September 2021, SPR has submitted another Addendum(Al2) to the request for authorization to remove two wind turbines (T1 and T11) from the site design. AL2 was then advertised and consulted from September to November 2021.
Current stage
Consent was granted to Scottish Power Renewables(UK) Limited (SPR) by
Scottish Ministers on 8 December 2021 to construct and operate Kilgallioch Windfarm Extension.
The construction consist of an electricity generating station with generation capacity of 50MW when the station is combined with the existing Kilgallioch Wind Farm, which consists of 9 wind turbines, located approximately 9.5 km north west of
Kirkcowan
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in the authority of
Dumfries and Galloway
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Council and
South Ayrshire Council
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Etymology
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, together with the planning permission under section 57(2) of the Town & Country Planning Act (Scotland) 1997.
Consent was granted for 9 turbines with the maximum height of 180m with the generating capacity of 50mw.
See also
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Wind power in Scotland
Wind power in Scotland is the fastest-growing renewable energy technology, with 9,347 megawatt, MW of installed wind power capacity as of June 2020. This included 8,366 MW from onshore wind in Scotland and 981 MW of offshore wind generators.
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List of onshore wind farms
This is a list of the largest onshore wind farms that are currently operational, rated by generating capacity. Also listed are onshore wind farms with notability other than size, and largest proposed projects.
Largest operational onshore wind ...
References
Wind farms in Scotland
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