Whitelee Wind Farm

Whitelee Wind Farm
Whitelee Wind Farm
	Whitelee wind farm with the Isle of Arran in the background
Country	Scotland
Location	Main entrance on Moor Rd, near Eaglesham, East Renfrewshire. Extends into East Ayrshire and South Lanarkshire.
Coordinates	55°40′22″N 4°17′08″W / 55.6728°N 4.2856°W
Status	Operational
Commission date	May 2009
Owner(s)	ScottishPower;
Wind farm
Type	Onshore;
Hub height	65 m
Rotor diameter	90 m
Site area	55 km2
Power generation
Units operational	6 × 1.67 MW; 140 × 2.3 MW; 69 × 3 MW
Make and model	GE Renewable Energy ECO 100 (69); GE Renewable Energy ECO 74 (6); Siemens Gamesa SWT-2.3-82 VS (40); Siemens Gamesa SWT-2.3-93 (100)
Nameplate capacity	539 MW;
External links
Website	www.whiteleewindfarm.co.uk
Commons	Related media on Commons
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Whitelee Wind Farm is a windfarm on the Eaglesham moor in Scotland. The main visitor centre is located in East Renfrewshire, but the majority of turbines are located in East Ayrshire and South Lanarkshire. It is the largest on-shore wind farm in the United Kingdom with 215 Siemens and Alstom wind turbines and a total capacity of 539 megawatts (MW), with the average of 2.5 MW per turbine.^[2] Whitelee was developed and is operated by ScottishPower Renewables,^[3] which is part of the Spanish company Iberdrola.^[4]

The Scottish government had a target of generating 31% of Scotland's electricity from renewable energy by 2011 and 100% by 2020. The majority of this is likely to come from wind power.^[5]