Arecleoch Wind Farm
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Arecleoch Wind Farm is a 60 turbine wind farm
in South Ayrshire
, Scotland
with a total capacity of 120 megawatts (MW), enough to power over 67,000 homes. Construction started in 2009 and it was commisioned in June 2011.
Wind farm
A wind farm is a group of wind turbines in the same location used to produce electric power. A large wind farm may consist of several hundred individual wind turbines, and cover an extended area of hundreds of square miles, but the land between the turbines may be used for agricultural or other...
in South Ayrshire
South Ayrshire
South Ayrshire is one of 32 council areas of Scotland, covering the southern part of Ayrshire. It borders onto East Ayrshire, North Ayrshire and Dumfries and Galloway....
, Scotland
Scotland
Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...
with a total capacity of 120 megawatts (MW), enough to power over 67,000 homes. Construction started in 2009 and it was commisioned in June 2011.