Wathegar 2 Wind Farm

9 turbines · operational · Highland

Wind farm facts

StatusOperational
County / regionHighland
Turbines9
Installed capacity18.5 MW
Turbine capacity2.05 MW
Tip heightnot recorded
Operator (or applicant)BayWa r.e.
Turbine manufacturerVestas
Turbine modelV112

♻️ Project timeline

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

2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 Project timeline Application submitted October 2011 Permission granted March 2012 Under construction December 2016 Operational September 2017

From application to operation, this scheme took about 6 years.

Source: Renewable Energy Planning Database, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Open Government Licence v3.0. REPD ref 4425.

What the register tells us

The application was determined in about 5 months. Construction to first power took about 9 months. The scheme has been operating for about 9 years. That works out at 2.06 MW per turbine on average.

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