🌬️ Onshore wind farm

Wathegar 2 Wind Farm
Highland

Recorded in WhichWindTurbine: 9 wind turbines in operation. Point the app at one of them to see its profile in real time.

9
turbines
18.5 MW
MW total
2.05 MW
per turbine

📍 9 turbines mapped — each dot is a turbine recorded in the database. Average position: 58.4359 N · 3.22638 W.

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
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♻️ Project timeline

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

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  1. 1Oct 2011 — Application submitted
  2. 2Mar 2012 — Permission granted
  3. 3Dec 2016 — Under construction
  4. 4Sep 2017 — Operational

DevelopmentConstructionOperationAhead (repowering horizon at 22 years)

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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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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