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<p>The Department does not hold information on when individual wind turbines were
constructed and installed, nor on repair and maintenance of wind farm developments.</p><p>It
does however hold records of wind farm developments becoming fully operational and
the number of turbines associated with those developments. This information is found
on the Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD):</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/renewable-energy-planning-data"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/renewable-energy-planning-data</a></p><p>For
reference, the following shows the number of wind turbines generating in wind farm
developments that have become fully operational in the 5 years to the end of 2013:</p><p>
</p><table><tbody><tr><td> </td><td><p><strong><em>Onshore Wind</em></strong></p></td><td><p><strong><em>Offshore
Wind</em></strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009</p></td><td><p>271</p></td><td><p>103</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>292</p></td><td><p>130</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>274</p></td><td><p>51</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>657</p></td><td><p>309</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>683</p></td><td><p>279</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><em>Source:
REPD, August 2014</em></p><p> </p>
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