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 manufacturernot recorded
Turbine modelnot recorded

♻️ Project timeline

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

2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 Project timeline Application submitted January 2014 Permission granted October 2016 Permission expired October 2019 Under construction May 2021 Operational January 2023

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.

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