🌬️ Onshore wind farm

Creag Riabhach Wind Farm
Highland

Recorded in WhichWindTurbine: 22 wind turbines in operation. Point the app at one of them to see its profile in real time.

22
turbines
92.4 MW
MW total
4.2 MW
per turbine
125 m
tip height

📍 22 turbines mapped — each dot is a turbine recorded in the database. Average position: 58.22076 N · 4.51233 W.

Creag Riabhach Wind Farm

22 turbines · operational · Highland

Wind farm facts

StatusOperational
County / regionHighland
Turbines22
Installed capacity92.4 MW
Turbine capacity4.2 MW
Tip height125 m
Operator (or applicant)ERG
Turbine manufacturerEnercon
Turbine modelE-115 E3
Open this wind farm in WhichWindTurbine Interactive map + augmented-reality identification on site

✓ Verified reference — turbine make and model

Enercon · E-115 E3 · 22 turbines · 4.2 MW each · hub 67 m · rotor 115 m

Source: Collett & Sons, haulier of the wind farm's 242 components, 2024-01, read on 2026-09-14. Corroborated by 2 further sources. Where OpenStreetMap tags differ, this record prevails.

♻️ Project timeline

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

→ ~20452014201620182020202220242026today12345
  1. 1Jan 2014 — Application submitted
  2. 2Oct 2016 — Permission granted
  3. 3Oct 2019 — Permission expired
  4. 4May 2021 — Under construction
  5. 5Jan 2023 — Operational

DevelopmentConstructionOperationAhead (repowering horizon at 22 years)

From application to operation, this scheme took about 9 years.

Source: Renewable Energy Planning Database, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Open Government Licence v3.0. REPD ref 4300.

What the register tells us

The application was determined in about 33 months. Construction to first power took about 20 months. A planning permission on this site expired in October 2019. The scheme has been operating for about 3 years. That works out at 4.2 MW per turbine on average.

Nearby

See all wind farms in Highland.

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

Public data may lag behind operator figures. Spotted an error? Suggest a correction from the app.