Wathegar wind farm

5 turbines · operational · Highland

Wind farm facts

StatusOperational
County / regionHighland
Turbines5
Installed capacity10 MW
Turbine capacity2 MW
Tip heightnot recorded
Operator (or applicant)Private Developer
Turbine manufacturernot recorded
Turbine modelnot recorded

♻️ Project timeline

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

2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Project timeline Application submitted February 2010 Permission granted May 2010 Under construction June 2012 Operational March 2013 Permission expired May 2019

From application to operation, this scheme took about 3 years.

Source: Renewable Energy Planning Database, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Open Government Licence v3.0. REPD ref 3757.

What the register tells us

The application was determined in about 3 months. Construction to first power took about 9 months. A planning permission on this site expired in May 2019. The scheme has been operating for about 13 years. That works out at 2 MW per turbine on average.

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