Novar Wind Farm (Extension)

16 turbines · operational · Highland

Wind farm facts

StatusOperational
County / regionHighland
Turbines16
Installed capacity36.8 MW
Turbine capacity2.3 MW
Tip heightnot recorded
Operator (or applicant)RWE npower
Turbine manufacturernot recorded
Turbine modelnot recorded

♻️ Project timeline

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

2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 Project timeline Application submitted May 2003 Permission granted June 2005 Under construction August 2010 Operational September 2012 Permission expired June 2014

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 4013.

What the register tells us

The application was determined in about 25 months. Construction to first power took about 25 months. A planning permission on this site expired in June 2014. The scheme has been operating for about 14 years. That works out at 2.3 MW per turbine on average.

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