Acting for owners Windcluster Ltd, Wind Prospect secured planning permission in August 2002 to replace five 10 year old Vestas V27-225kW turbines with four Vestas V52-850 kW machines. This will substantially increase the power generated from this well-accepted site near Millom in south Cumbria.

Wind Prospect was appointed as project managers of the site by Vestas Celtic Ltd. Construction was completed by Ken Hope Ltd of Rockcliffe, Cumbria doing the civil works, and Econnect of Hexham, Northumberland carrying out the electrical installation and commissioning.

The decommissioning of the existing five turbines was carried out by Agrilek of Barrow in Furness with three of them being re-erected by the Gigha Trust on the Isle of Gigha at the end of 2004.

The wind farm is connected to the Grid by two separate 5 km long export cables (due to restraints on the Grid).

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