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3 turbines · operational · Highland

Wind farm facts

StatusOperational
County / regionHighland
Turbines3
Installed capacity6.2 MW
Turbine capacity2.05 MW
Tip heightnot recorded
Operator (or applicant)Messrs James and Ronald Innes
Turbine manufacturernot recorded
Turbine modelnot recorded

♻️ Project timeline

Dated milestones from the UK Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD), Q2 2026 — not estimates.

1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 Project timeline Permission expired March 2000 Application submitted August 2004 Permission granted March 2006 Under construction April 2009 Operational May 2009

From application to operation, this scheme took about 5 years.

Source: Renewable Energy Planning Database, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Open Government Licence v3.0. REPD ref 3285.

What the register tells us

The application was determined in about 19 months. Construction to first power took about 1 month. A planning permission on this site expired in March 2000. The scheme has been operating for about 17 years. That works out at 2.07 MW per turbine on average.

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