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Kilgallioch Wind Farm is a development by Scottish Power Renewables (SPR), a unit of Iberdrola. The turbines within the farm were constructed by Gamesa. The windfarm started the construction in 2015 and was able to start operating in 2017. The windfarm is able to provide power up to 239 MW, it can be considered as one of the largest onshore wind farms in the UK. Throughout the years of development, incidents have happened; sadly, one of the workers on the site passed away due to an accident while working on the turbine.

Design and location
Civil/Structural and Geotechnical designers on the Kilgallioch Wind Farm Project were employed by Farrans Construction. Gamesa is the company that makes the wind turbines in Kilgallioch, the models that are in use are G114/25000 and G90.

The wind farm has an area of approximately 32 km^2 with 70 km of internal tracks and 96 Gamesa turbines.Kilgallioch Wind Farm is situated in South Ayrshire, Scotland. Kilgallioch Windfarm Extension is situated on property known as High Eldrig, to the southeast of the operational Kilgallioch Windfarm, around 9.5 km north-west of Kirkcowan. The nearest community to the site is New Luce, approximately 7km north-east.

Project history
In accordance with Section 36 of the Electricity Act of 1989, the project began with public and other stakeholder consultation in December 2008, and the planning application was submitted to the Scottish Government in March 2010. The suggestions made have undergone a detailed design process, integrating input from stakeholders and the general public at every level. They represent an optimal design for the windfarm ,balancing the site's ability to provide advantages from renewable energy with environmental, technological, and community considerations. The Scottish Government then authorized the project in February 2013, and work on it began in 2015. The wind farm construction was completed and began operating in 2017. SPR have identified this area to the south of Kilgallioch Windfarm as having great potential to be an extension to the site.

A met mast was installed at High Eldrig in 2018 as a part of the development process, the mast was used to gather information on wind conditions at the site.

In April 2019 a scoping report was sent to the [https://www.tellmescotland.gov.uk/organisations/energy-consents-unit#:~:text=The%20Scottish%20Government%20Energy%20and,under%20The%20Electricity%20Act%201989. Scottish Government’s Energy Consent Unit].

Scottish Power Renewables (SPR) submitted an Addendum (Al1) to this applicant request for authorization to remove proposed solar arrays from the design site. Al1 was then advertised and consulted from January to February 2021.

Following the consultation with Historic Environment Scotland(HES) in September 2021, SPR has submitted another Addendum(Al2) to the request for authorization to remove two wind turbines (T1 and T11) from the site design. AL2 was then advertised and consulted from September to November 2021.

Current stage
Consent was granted to Scottish Power Renewables(UK) Limited (SPR) by Scottish Ministers on 08 December 2021 to construct and operate Kilgallioch Windfarm Extension. The construction consist of an electricity generating station with generation capacity of 50MW when the station is combined with the existing Kilgallioch Wind Farm, which consists of 9 wind turbines, located approximately 9.5km north west of Kirkcowan in the authority of Dumfries and Galloway Council and South Ayrshire Council, together with the planning permission under section 57(2) of the Town & Country Planning Act (Scotland) 1997.

Consent was granted for 9 turbines with the maximum height of 180m with the generating capacity of 50mw.

Performance
The total amount of power that Kilgallioch has produced is 239 MW which is produced by all the turbines. The wind turbines at Kilgallioch were manufactured by Gamesa, the model commissioned was the G114/2500 2.5MW which has a specific area of 4.09 m²/kW per turbine. It has 3 rotating blades which has the rated power of 2500 KW. The rotor of G114/2500 has a diameter at 114 m with a speed at 7.7 to 14.6 rd/min. The rated wind speed of this turbine is at 11 m/s, while its cut-in wind speed is at 2.5 m/s and cut-off at 24 m/s. The Gamesa G90 has a 2,00 MW rated power and the specific area of 3.2m²/kW per turbine. Three rotor blades make up the wind turbine. It has the area swept of 6,362.0 m2. The rotor of the G90 had a diameter at 90 m with the rated windspeed of 11m/s .Kilgallioch, the second-largest onshore wind farm in the UK, will power 130,000 homes. Finished in 2017, this project was completely functional. For extension, the installation consists of 11 turbines and 20 MW of solar photovoltaic arrays. Each turbine generates at the rate of 5.6 MW as the height of turbine installed is up to 180 m.

Incidents
On 13 January 2017 a turbine under construction catastrophically collapsed during a storm. A 480-foot-high wind turbine was destroyed in a storm, making it only the second windmill in Scotland to be destroyed. The unexpected structural failure of the £2 million machine has generated information requests from the Barrhill community. Fortunately, no one was near the 160-ton turbine when it fell. According to the Ayrshire Post's source, the 328-foot tower "creased" near the ground level access door. On collision, the three blades and switchgear were all shattered.

On 15 March 2017 Portuguese construction worker António João Linares, who was working for turbine manufacturer Gamesa, was killed when he fell 8 meters within a tower. At around 18:45 on 16 March 2017, emergency services were called to reports of a man being hurt at the under-construction Kilgallioch wind farm. The 37-year-old man was pronounced deceased at the scene. A full investigation was held but further information are classified.

Effect on the environment
Large, contemporary wind turbines may have an impact on the landscape of the surrounding area. Certain models of wind farms and wind projects kill bats and birds. These terrible events could result in population losses of species that are also impacted by other effects of human activity. With very few exceptions, wind turbines do not emit emissions that can contaminate the air or water, and they do not need water for cooling. With fewer fossil fuels used to generate energy, wind turbines may also decrease overall air pollution and carbon dioxide emissions. Although the majority of the materials used to construct wind turbines can be reused or recycled, the majority of turbine blades built today cannot. For water impact, the function of wind turbines does not cause an effect on water. Even Though some water would be used during the construction of the wind turbine.