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

♻️ 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 2017 Project timeline Application submitted December 2008 Permission granted December 2011 Under construction March 2012 Operational February 2013 Permission expired December 2016

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.