🌬️ Onshore wind farm

Point Wind / Beinn Ghrideag Farm
Western Isles

Recorded in WhichWindTurbine: 3 wind turbines in operation. Point the app at one of them to see its profile in real time.

3
turbines
9 MW
MW total
3 MW
per turbine

📍 3 turbines mapped — each dot is a turbine recorded in the database. Average position: 58.21014 N · 6.48629 W.

Point Wind / Beinn Ghrideag Farm

3 turbines · operational · Western Isles

Wind farm facts

StatusOperational
County / regionWestern Isles
Turbines3
Installed capacity9 MW
Turbine capacity3 MW
Tip heightnot recorded
Operator (or applicant)Point Power & Energy Ltd / SgurrEnergy
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.

→ ~20382010201520202025today1234
  1. 1Aug 2008 — Application submitted
  2. 2Apr 2012 — Permission granted
  3. 3Jul 2014 — Under construction
  4. 4Jul 2015 — Operational

The register also records a planning permission expiry in Apr 2019, 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 7 years.

Source: Renewable Energy Planning Database, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Open Government Licence v3.0. REPD ref 4272.

What the register tells us

The application was determined in about 44 months. Construction to first power took about 12 months. A planning permission on this site expired in April 2019. The scheme has been operating for about 11 years. That works out at 3 MW per turbine on average.

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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