Parc éolien de Whitelee

Le parc éolien de Whitelee est un parc éolien situé en Écosse.

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Corse Hill

Corse Hill is a hill located between East Renfrewshire and South Lanarkshire of Scotland. With a height of 376 m (1,234 ft), it is the highest point in East Renfrewshire.

Whitelee Wind Farm is a windfarm on the Eaglesham moor in Scotland. The main visitor centre is located in East Renfrewshire, but the majority of turbines are located in East Ayrshire and South Lanarkshire. It is the largest on-shore wind farm in the United Kingdom with 215 Siemens and Alstom wind turbines and a total capacity of 539 megawatts (MW), with the average of 2.5 MW per turbine. Whitelee was developed and is operated by ScottishPower Renewables, which is part of the Spanish company Iberdrola. The Scottish government had a target of generating 31% of Scotland's electricity from renewable energy by 2011 and 100% by 2020. The majority of this is likely to come from wind power.

Auldhouse, South Lanarkshire

Auldhouse is a hamlet in South Lanarkshire, around 0.5 miles (0.80 km) to the south of the suburban edge of East Kilbride.

East Kilbride (district)

East Kilbride (Scottish Gaelic: Cille Bhrìghde an Ear, Scots: East Kirkbride) was a local government district in the Strathclyde region of Scotland from 1975 to 1996, lying to the south of the regional capital Glasgow.

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Millhall

Millhall is a hamlet in East Renfrewshire, in the Central Lowlands of Scotland. It lies 0.8 miles (1.3 km) southeast of Eaglesham, 8.3 miles (13.4 km) northwest of Strathaven and 3.6 miles (5.8 km) southwest of East Kilbride. Polnoon Castle, a scheduled monument, is in Millhall.

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