Lairg Wind Farm

3 turbines · operational · Highland

Wind farm facts

StatusOperational
County / regionHighland
Turbines3
Installed capacity7.5 MW
Turbine capacity2.5 MW
Tip heightnot recorded
Operator (or applicant)ABO Wind
Turbine manufacturerNordex
Turbine modelnot recorded

♻️ Project timeline

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

2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 Project timeline Application submitted September 2006 Permission granted April 2008 Operational January 2012 Permission expired April 2015

From application to operation, this scheme took about 6 years.

Source: Renewable Energy Planning Database, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Open Government Licence v3.0. REPD ref 2796.

What the register tells us

The application was determined in about 19 months. A planning permission on this site expired in April 2015. The scheme has been operating for about 14 years. That works out at 2.5 MW per turbine on average.

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