History

Here are some of our key milestones.

• 1981

  

  The start of RES

  A small team within Sir Robert McAlpine began innovative wind turbine engineering.

• 1989

  

  We moved beyond designing turbine technology

  To developing, constructing and operating renewable projects.

• 1992

  

  Our first wind project

  Carland Cross, the second commercial wind farm in the UK.

• 1995

  

  We delivered our first solar PV project

  Designed and installed in the UK.

• 1998

  

  First commercial 1 MW wind turbine

  Designed and built by RES.

• 1999

  

  Our first wind project in California

  60 MW Cameron Ridge wind project, developed and constructed.

• 1999

  

  We started third-party construction

  Completing the 47 MW Pacific Crest wind project in California.

• 2001

  

  Our people constructed the largest wind project in the world

  278 MW King Mountain in Texas.

• 2002

  

  We doubled Northern Ireland's wind energy capacity

  With the completion of Lendrum's Bridge and Altahullion wind projects.

• 2003

  

  We built the largest public-owned wind project in the US

  63.7 MW Nine Canyon Wind.

• 2004

  

  Entered Australia and New Zealand

  Started development of renewable energy projects.

• 2007

  

  Our first Scandinavian wind farm

  10 MW Hornberget wind project in Sweden.

• 2011

  

  500 MW offshore project development

  St Brieuc Wind Project in Brittany, France.

• 2013

  

  Launched our RESolve energy management system

  The state-of-the-art software has been proven to maximise potential revenue streams for customers.

• 2017

  

  Australia's third largest wind farm starts generating 

  Ararat has 75 turbines and a capacity of 240 MW.

• 2020

  

  Our Support Services portfolio grew

  5.5GW operational assets supported.

• 2022

  

  RES acquires Anemo Analytics

  A cutting edge analytics company to power our digital transformation.

• 2023

  

  RES acquires IM Future in Spain

  An experienced leader in wind energy maintenance to strengthen our offering to customers.

• 2023

  

  Acquired Ingeteam Service

  Growing RES to 4,500 people across 23 countries and 7 technologies.