Pentland Road Wind Farm

6 turbines · operational · Western Isles

Wind farm facts

StatusOperational
County / regionWestern Isles
Turbines6
Installed capacity13.8 MW
Turbine capacity2.3 MW
Tip heightnot recorded
Operator (or applicant)Arnish Electric Ltd / Farm Energy Ltd
Turbine manufacturernot recorded
Turbine modelnot recorded

♻️ Project timeline

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

1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 Project timeline Permission expired September 2000 Application submitted September 2002 Permission granted September 2004 Under construction March 2012 Operational March 2013

From application to operation, this scheme took about 11 years.

Source: Renewable Energy Planning Database, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Open Government Licence v3.0. REPD ref 4063.

What the register tells us

The application was determined in about 24 months. Construction to first power took about 12 months. A planning permission on this site expired in September 2000. The scheme has been operating for about 13 years. That works out at 2.3 MW per turbine on average.