🌬️ Onshore wind farm

Novar Wind Farm (Extension)
Highland

Recorded in WhichWindTurbine: 16 wind turbines in operation. Point the app at one of them to see its profile in real time.

16
turbines
36.8 MW
MW total
2.3 MW
per turbine

📍 14 turbines mapped — each dot is a turbine recorded in the database. Average position: 57.74444 N · 4.39138 W.

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
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♻️ Project timeline

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

→ ~203520052010201520202025today1234
  1. 1May 2003 — Application submitted
  2. 2Jun 2005 — Permission granted
  3. 3Aug 2010 — Under construction
  4. 4Sep 2012 — Operational

The register also records a planning permission expiry in Jun 2014, 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 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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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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