Thank you for your request dated 23rd January 2020 under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 (FOISA).
Your request
You asked for information concerning density of wind turbines in local authority areas in Scotland, specifically: The number of turbines in each local authority area (industrial, small and medium scale if possible). The average number of turbines per square kilometre in each local authority area. The average number of turbines per capita in each local authority area
Response to your request
The response to your request can be found attached to this email.
Please note: these figures are for industrial turbines only.
4 Comments
RobF · February 10, 2020 at 10:44 am
Whats the source of the above data please? I know there are councils with turbines which are marked with a 0 in the table
SAS Volunteer · February 11, 2020 at 9:31 am
The data was the result of a freedom of information request from the Scottish Government. It is possible you are seeing turbines which are not Industrial turbines, ie small or medium scale. Sometimes it is hard to know the difference. This table only shows industrial turbines up to December 2019 which are operational.
RobF · February 12, 2020 at 11:01 am
Ta, I know of large 80m 800kW turbines that aren’t included in the table so I do wonder what their definition of industrial/small/medium is.
SAS Volunteer · February 12, 2020 at 5:16 pm
Industrial is usually 100m+ or 1 MW+