This map is from the scoping proposals for Knockower Wind farm (see our post earlier today). It shows the wind farms which are currently operational or in various stages of planning or scoping in Southwest Scotland. Click on the map and you will see it in a more detailed PDF format.
The larger of the two circles (the purple one) is a circle of 35km radius from the proposed Knockower Wind farm on Loch Doon. Just within this circle, no fewer than 870 turbines are currently built, approved, or in the planning or scoping process. The list is as follows (courtesy of the Knockower wind farm scoping document):
Wind farms within 35 km of Knockower | ||
Site | Turbine height (m) | No. Turbines |
Installed | ||
Wether Hill | 91 | 14 |
Windy Standard | 100 | 36 |
Hare Hill | 63.5 | 20 |
Hadyard Hill | 110 | 52 |
Mark Hill | 110 | 28 |
Arecleoch | 135 | 60 |
Approved | ||
Sanquhar | 130 | 12 |
Windy Standard Extension | 100 | 30 |
Whiteside Hill | 121.2 | 13 |
Blackcraig | 110 | 23 |
Tralorg | 100 | 8 |
Kilgallioch | 146.5 | 96 |
Application | ||
Spango | 145 | 14 |
South Kyle | 149.5 | 50 |
Margree | 125 | 25 |
Ulzieside | 125 | 12 |
Sandy Knowe | 125 | 30 |
Hare Hill Extension 2 | 96 | 39 |
Afton | 120 | 27 |
Kype Muir | 125 & 132 | 26 |
Ashmark Hill | 116 | 7 |
High Cumnock | 132 | 8 |
Garleffan | 135 | 9 |
Burnhead | 100 | 8 |
Dersalloch | 115 & 125 | 23 |
Sclenteuch/Keirs Hill | 149 | 17 |
Glenmount | 130 | 19 |
Assel Valley | 110 | 11 |
Breaker Hill | 86.5 | 9 |
Corwar | 126 | 8 |
Longburn | 135 | 25 |
Twentyshilling Hill | 125 | 9 |
Altercannoch | 125 | 10 |
Penbreck | 125 | 9 |
Mochrum Fell | 126.5 | 11 |
Collieston Hill | 141.4 | 18 |
Lethans | 132 – 140 | 29 |
Linfairn | 126.5 | 25 |
Total no. turbines | 870 |