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Costa HeadNitshill wind farm -- — Announced · Wind · 26.4 MW · 4.0 km awayEvie Wind Energy Project -- — Wind · 2.3 MW · 7.0 km awaySkeabrae Wind Energy Project -- — Canceled · Wind · 1.5 MW · 9.8 km awayHammar's Hill wind farm 2 — Wind · 8.4 MW · 10.2 km awayEnyas Hill wind farm -- — Canceled · Wind · 6 MW · 14.3 km awayQuanterness wind farm -- — Announced · Wind · 28.8 MW · 19.9 km awayAkla wind farm -- — Announced · Wind · 2.7 MW · 22.5 km awayGruf Hill wind farm -- — Canceled · Wind · 7.5 MW · 23.4 km away
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Costa Head

Wind

Key facts

Wind Filed
Capacity
Capacity: sourceGlobal Energy Monitor — Global Integrated Power Tracker (unit-level power plants, eight technologies, all statuses) · Open license, with creditMW
Queue position
PRO-005102
In-service date
(stated)
Location
Scotland, United Kingdom

Details

Who’s behind it

Developer
Costa Head Wind Farm Limited

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Kind
Generation
Technology
Wind source: “Wind Onshore”
Capacity (MW)
16.3 Capacity is the interconnection request in NESO Transmission Entry Capacity (TEC) Register. The 1 generator listed in Global Energy Monitor — Global Integrated Power Tracker (unit-level power plants, eight technologies, all statuses) (listed under Sources) total 16.3 MW nameplate.
Connects at
Finstown (Orkney) GSPConnection point36.7 MW active (2 of 2 projects).

Timeline

  • Stated In-service date stated by NESO.
  • Observed as filed in NESO (source status: “Scoping”).

“Stated” dates are the source’s plan, not a commitment.

About these dates

Status: the most advanced any source reports, dated by that source. Later changes follow as we see them.

Sources

2 sources

Sources GEM · NESO

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Sources

  • GEMOpen license, with credit · retrieved Oct 26, 2026Global Integrated Power Tracker, Global Energy Monitor, September 2026 release (https://globalenergymonitor.org/projects/global-integrated-power-tracker), CC BY 4.0. Modified by Inframation: TransitionZero-sourced rows removed; statuses and technologies mapped to Inframation's vocabulary; figures aggregated. Copyright © Global Energy Monitor. Global Integrated Power Tracker, September 2026 release. Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
  • NESOOpen license, with credit · retrieved Nov 13, 2026Supported by National Energy SO Open Data

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Nearby

within 25 km
ProjectKindAwayMW
Nitshill wind farm -- Announced Wind 4.0 km 26.4
Evie Wind Energy Project -- Unknown Wind 7.0 km 2.3
Skeabrae Wind Energy Project -- Canceled Wind 9.8 km 1.5
Hammar's Hill wind farm 2 Unknown Wind 10.2 km 8.4
Enyas Hill wind farm -- Canceled Wind 14.3 km 6
Quanterness wind farm -- Announced Wind 19.9 km 28.8
Akla wind farm -- Announced Wind 22.5 km 2.7
Gruf Hill wind farm -- Canceled Wind 23.4 km 7.5

Sources GEM

Sources

  • GEMOpen license, with credit · retrieved Oct 26, 2026Global Integrated Power Tracker, Global Energy Monitor, September 2026 release (https://globalenergymonitor.org/projects/global-integrated-power-tracker), CC BY 4.0. Modified by Inframation: TransitionZero-sourced rows removed; statuses and technologies mapped to Inframation's vocabulary; figures aggregated. Copyright © Global Energy Monitor. Global Integrated Power Tracker, September 2026 release. Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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