Loch Sminig Wind Project

3 turbines · operational · Western Isles

Wind farm facts

StatusOperational
County / regionWestern Isles
Turbines3
Installed capacity2.7 MW
Turbine capacity0.9 MW
Tip heightnot recorded
Operator (or applicant)Urras Oighreachd Ghabhsainn
Turbine manufacturernot recorded
Turbine modelnot recorded

♻️ Project timeline

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

2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 Project timeline Application submitted August 2008 Permission granted May 2009 Permission expired May 2012 Under construction June 2013 Operational September 2015

From application to operation, this scheme took about 7 years.

Source: Renewable Energy Planning Database, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Open Government Licence v3.0. REPD ref 3988.

What the register tells us

The application was determined in about 9 months. Construction to first power took about 27 months. A planning permission on this site expired in May 2012. The scheme has been operating for about 11 years. That works out at 0.9 MW per turbine on average.