Background
Nadara will be holding two further public exhibitions for the Beinn Ghlas Wind Farm Repowering Project. The purpose of the exhibitions is to provide a further opportunity to find out about the final Proposed Development and receive Nadara’s feedback on the points raised at the previous exhibitions.
The proposed number and height of turbines and wind farm layout remains the same as presented at the April 2025 public exhibitions and shown on the project website.
The Public exhibitions will be held on the following dates:
Tuesday 10 June 2025, 4–7pm
Wednesday 11 June 2025, 4–7pm
Site Description
The site was originally selected for a wind farm for a range of reasons which included high average wind speed and access to grid infrastructure. The site is not located within any environmental designations.
The site comprises rugged hills, scattered with small outcrops of rocks and scoured with steep sided streams. There is open moorland, predominantly upland heath and mires including bog pools on the higher ground and a mixture of rough grassland and woodland on the lower slopes. There is a combination of native deciduous woodland and commercial coniferous forestry to the southeast of the site. A habitat management area was established to the west of the existing wind turbines as part of the current operational Beinn Ghlas Wind Farm.
The existing Beinn Ghlas Wind Farm comprises 14 Bonus (B44/600) wind turbines with a tip height of approximately 54.1 m, blade length of 19.1 m and a capacity of 600 kW providing an overall capacity of 8.4 MW. Each turbine is supported on a tapered cylindrical tower approximately 35 m high and has a three bladed rotor approximately 40 m in diameter. The existing turbines currently at the site of the Proposed Development would be removed, and the site would be reinstated except where infrastructure can be used for the repowering project.
The site asset manager visits the control building on the site approximately once a week depending on requirements and weather conditions. The site is also attended by operational and maintenance technicians when required.
