Kilgallioch Wind Farm
Map
CountryScotland, United Kingdom
LocationSouth Ayrshire
Coordinates55°03′00″N 4°45′54″W / 55.05°N 4.765°W / 55.05; -4.765
StatusOperational
Construction began2015
Commission date
  • 2 January 2017
Owner(s)
Operator(s)
Wind farm
Rotor diameter
  • 114 m (374 ft)
Power generation
Units operational2 × 2 MW
94 × 2.5 MW
Make and modelGamesa G114-2.5 MW (94)
Gamesa G90-2.0 MW (2)
Nameplate capacity
  • 239 MW
External links
Websitewww.scottishpowerrenewables.com/pages/kilgallioch.aspx
[edit on Wikidata]

Kilgallioch Wind Farm is a 96 turbine wind farm in South Ayrshire, Scotland with a total capacity of up to 239 megawatts (MW).[1] 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.[2][3]

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.[4][5]

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.[6]

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.[6] In April 2019 a scoping report was sent to the Scottish Government’s Energy Consent Unit.[6]

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.[6]

Following the consultation with Historic Environment Scotland(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.[6]

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.[7] 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 in the authority of Dumfries and Galloway Council and South Ayrshire Council, together with the planning permission under section 57(2) of the Town & Country Planning Act (Scotland) 1997.[7]  Consent was granted for 9 turbines with the maximum height of 180m with the generating capacity of 50mw.[7]  

See also

References

  1. ^ "Kilgallioch Windfarm - ScottishPower Renewables". www.scottishpowerrenewables.com. Retrieved 18 March 2017.
  2. ^ Houston, Stephen (29 January 2017). "Panic as giant 480ft wind turbine collapses". dailyrecord. Retrieved 18 March 2017.
  3. ^ "Kilgallioch wind farm turbine incident under investigation". BBC News. 20 January 2017. Retrieved 18 March 2017.
  4. ^ "Português morre em queda de 150 metros na Escócia". Retrieved 18 March 2017.
  5. ^ "Worker dies in Kilgallioch wind farm accident". BBC News. 16 March 2017. Retrieved 18 March 2017.
  6. ^ a b c d e "Kilgallioch Windfarm Extension". ScottishPower Renewables. Retrieved 7 October 2022.
  7. ^ a b c https://www.scottishpowerrenewables.com/userfiles/file/Determination%20-%20Notice%20of%20decision%20-%20Kilgallioch%20Windfarm%20Extension%20-%2008%20December%202021.pdf[bare URL PDF]


Categories