Beinn Ghlas Wind Farm

14 turbines · operational · Strathclyde

Wind farm facts

StatusOperational
County / regionStrathclyde
Turbines14
Installed capacity7.8 MW
Turbine capacity0.55 MW
Tip heightnot recorded
Operator (or applicant)RWE npower
Turbine manufacturerBonus
Turbine modelnot recorded

♻️ Project timeline

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

1996 1999 2002 2005 2008 2011 2014 2017 2020 2023 2026 Original scheme Application submitted May 1997 Permission granted August 1998 Operational June 1999 Permission expired August 2017 Later scheme Application submitted August 2025

From application to operation, this scheme took about 2 years.

The register links a second scheme on this site (REPD ref 11843, Application Submitted): 7 turbines · 4.8 MW each · 149.9 m tip height · applicant Nadara Limited (Beaufort Wind Limited). Two schemes on one site usually mean a repowering or an extension — to be confirmed with the operator.

Source: Renewable Energy Planning Database, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Open Government Licence v3.0. REPD ref 3295.

What the register tells us

The application was determined in about 15 months. A planning permission on this site expired in August 2017. The scheme has been operating for about 27 years. At that age, wind farms commonly become candidates for repowering or life extension — nothing in the register confirms such a plan here. That works out at 0.56 MW per turbine on average.

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