What is Clyde Wind Farm?
The '''Clyde Wind Farm''' is a proposed 548 [[megawatt]] (MW) [[wind farm]] in [[South Lanarkshire]], [[Scotland]]. When completed, it will be Europe's largest onshore wind farm. The 152-turbine project by [[Scottish and Southern Energy]], which was approved by the [[Scottish Parliament]] in July 2008, capable of powering 320,000 homes, and will be larger than the 322 MW [[Whitelee Wind Farm]] near Glasgow.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/latestnews/Wind-farms-now-we39ve-got.4309930.jp | title=Wind farms: now we've got the biggest in Europe | first=Jenny | last=Haworth | date=2008-07-22 | accessdate=2008-07-22 }}</ref> Turbines will be built either side of the [[M74 motorway]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/07/21/eawind121.xml | title=Europe's largest onshore wind farm is to be built in Scotland costing £600m | first=Simon | last=Johnson | work=[[Telegraph.co.uk]] | publisher=[[Telegraph Media Group]] | date=2008-07-21 | accessdate=2008-07-22 | archive-date=2019-12-10 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191210003431/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fearth%2F2008%2F07%2F21%2Feawind121.xml | url-status=dead }}</ref> Construction of the wind farm, which will cost £600 million, is expected to finish in 2011.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/7517176.stm | title=Green light for massive wind farm | publisher=[[BBC News]] | date=2008-07-21 | accessdate=2008-07-22 }}</ref> ==Related pages== *[[List of large wind farms]] ==References== <references/> [[Category:Wind farms]] [[Category:Buildings and structures in Scotland]] [[Category:South Lanarkshire]]