Monan Hill Wind Turbines

3 turbines · operational · Western Isles

Wind farm facts

StatusOperational
County / regionWestern Isles
Turbines3
Installed capacity1.5 MW
Turbine capacity0.5 MW
Tip heightnot recorded
Operator (or applicant)North Harris Trust
Turbine manufacturerWindFlow
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 May 2006 Permission granted February 2008 Permission expired February 2011 Under construction July 2014 Operational March 2015

From application to operation, this scheme took about 9 years.

Source: Renewable Energy Planning Database, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Open Government Licence v3.0. REPD ref 4629.

What the register tells us

The application was determined in about 21 months. Construction to first power took about 8 months. A planning permission on this site expired in February 2011. The scheme has been operating for about 11 years. That works out at 0.5 MW per turbine on average.