🌬️ Onshore wind farm

Meall an Tuirc Wind Farm
Highland

Recorded in WhichWindTurbine: 34 wind turbines in operation. Point the app at one of them to see its profile in real time.

34
turbines
17 MW
MW total

📍 34 turbines mapped — each dot is a turbine recorded in the database. Average position: 57.71242 N · 4.43544 W.

Meall an Tuirc Wind Farm

34 turbines · operational · Highland

Wind farm facts

StatusOperational
County / regionHighland
Turbines34
Installed capacity17 MW
Turbine capacitynot recorded
Tip heightnot recorded
Operator (or applicant)RWE npower
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.

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  1. 1May 1995 — Application submitted
  2. 2Aug 1996 — Permission granted
  3. 3Sep 1997 — Operational

The register also records a planning permission expiry in Aug 2017, after commissioning: an administrative date with no effect on the operating wind farm, left off the axis.

DevelopmentConstructionOperationAhead (repowering horizon at 22 years)

From application to operation, this scheme took about 2 years.

Source: Renewable Energy Planning Database, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Open Government Licence v3.0. REPD ref 3297.

What the register tells us

The application was determined in about 15 months. A planning permission on this site expired in August 2017. The scheme has been operating for about 29 years. At that age, wind farms commonly become candidates for repowering or life extension — nothing in the register confirms such a plan here. That works out at 0.5 MW per turbine on average.

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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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