🌬️ Onshore wind farm

Strathy South
Highland

Recorded in WhichWindTurbine: 35 wind turbines. Point the app at one of them to see its profile in real time.

35
turbines
208 MW
MW total
6.2 MW
per turbine
200 m
tip height

📍 35 turbines mapped — each dot is a turbine recorded in the database. Average position: 58.43179 N · 4.06304 W.

Strathy South

35 turbines · under construction · Highland

Wind farm facts

StatusUnder Construction
County / regionHighland
Turbines35
Installed capacity208 MW
Turbine capacity6.2 MW
Tip height200 m
Operator (or applicant)Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE)
Turbine manufacturerVestas
Turbine modelV162-6.2
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✓ Verified reference — turbine make and model

Vestas · V162-6.2 · 35 turbines · 6.2 MW each · rotor 162 m

Source: SSE Renewables, operator project page, 2025, read on 2026-09-19. Corroborated by 4 further sources. Where OpenStreetMap tags differ, this record prevails.

♻️ Project timeline

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

2010201520202025today1234
  1. 1Feb 2009 — Application submitted
  2. 2Apr 2018 — Permission granted
  3. 3Apr 2018 — Granted on appeal
  4. 4Jun 2025 — Under construction

The register also records a planning permission expiry in Nov 2027, after construction had started: an administrative date with no effect on the wind farm, left off the axis.

DevelopmentConstructionOperationAhead (repowering horizon at 22 years)

Source: Renewable Energy Planning Database, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Open Government Licence v3.0. REPD ref 4418.

What the register tells us

The application was determined in about 110 months. Permission was ultimately granted on appeal in April 2018. A planning permission on this site expired in November 2027. That works out at 5.94 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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