🌬️ Onshore wind farm

Lochcarnan Community Windfarm
Western Isles

Recorded in WhichWindTurbine: 3 wind turbines in operation. Point the app at one of them to see its profile in real time.

3
turbines
6.9 MW
MW total
2.3 MW
per turbine

📍 3 turbines mapped — each dot is a turbine recorded in the database. Average position: 57.23658 N · 7.35449 W.

Lochcarnan Community Windfarm

3 turbines · operational · Western Isles

Wind farm facts

StatusOperational
County / regionWestern Isles
Turbines3
Installed capacity6.9 MW
Turbine capacity2.3 MW
Tip heightnot recorded
Operator (or applicant)Storas Uibhist
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.

→ ~20352010201520202025today1234
  1. 1Dec 2008 — Application submitted
  2. 2Dec 2011 — Permission granted
  3. 3Mar 2012 — Under construction
  4. 4Feb 2013 — Operational

The register also records a planning permission expiry in Dec 2016, after construction had started: an administrative date with no effect on the wind farm, left off the axis.

DevelopmentConstructionOperationAhead (repowering horizon at 22 years)

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

Source: Renewable Energy Planning Database, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Open Government Licence v3.0. REPD ref 3670.

What the register tells us

The application was determined in about 36 months. Construction to first power took about 11 months. A planning permission on this site expired in December 2016. The scheme has been operating for about 13 years. That works out at 2.3 MW per turbine on average.

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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