🌬️ Onshore wind farm

Ben Aketil Extension
Highland

Recorded in WhichWindTurbine: 10 wind turbines in operation. Point the app at one of them to see its profile in real time.

10
turbines
23 MW
MW total
2.3 MW
per turbine

📍 2 turbines mapped — each dot is a turbine recorded in the database. Average position: 57.43999 N · 6.45045 W.

Ben Aketil Extension

10 turbines · operational · Highland

Wind farm facts

StatusOperational
County / regionHighland
Turbines10
Installed capacity23 MW
Turbine capacity2.3 MW
Tip heightnot recorded
Operator (or applicant)RDC Scotland (Renewable Development Co.)
Turbine manufacturernot recorded
Turbine modelnot recorded
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♻️ Project timeline

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

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  1. 1Apr 2009 — Application submitted
  2. 2Feb 2010 — Permission granted
  3. 3Apr 2010 — Under construction
  4. 4Jan 2011 — Operational

The register also records a planning permission expiry in Feb 2010, in the same month as, or before, the permission was granted: it refers to an earlier permission, left off the axis.

DevelopmentConstructionOperationAhead (repowering horizon at 22 years)

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

The register links a second scheme on this site (REPD ref 3668, Operational): 2 turbines · 2.3 MW each · applicant Ben Aketil Wind Energy Ltd. 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 3135.

What the register tells us

The application was determined in about 37 months. The scheme has been operating for about 19 years. That works out at 2.3 MW per turbine on average.

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Sources and dates

DataSourceExtract
Site, capacity, status, planning milestonesRenewable Energy Planning Database (DESNZ, Open Government Licence v3)Q2 2026, published 03/08/2026
Turbine positionsOpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)19/08/2026
Manufacturer and modelOpenStreetMap tags, unverified — REPD does not record turbine models. Known for 41 % of UK turbines (manufacturer) and 32 % (model); some values are propagated within a site and may be wrong.19/08/2026

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