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

♻️ Project timeline

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

2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Project timeline Application submitted August 2008 Permission granted April 2012 Under construction July 2014 Operational July 2015 Permission expired April 2019

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.