Welcome to the second stage of public exhibitions for the Beinn Ghlas Wind Farm Repowering project. Key members of the project team are available today to answer any questions that you may have about the project.
About Nadara
Nadara is one of the largest European independent renewable power producers and was formed through the coming together of Renantis and Ventient Energy in January 2024. Nadara designs, builds, and manages power plants from renewable energy sources, with an installed capacity of more than 4.2 Gigawatts (GW) across 200 plants globally.
Nadara companies have been operating in the UK since 2002 with offices in Inverness, Edinburgh, Cardiff and London and operates 45 onshore wind farms (>1.1 GW) in the UK.
The Site
The existing Beinn Ghlas Wind Farm is located on the undulating uplands around Carn Gaibhre to the east of Beinn Ghlas summit on the Barguillean Estate near Taynuilt in the Argyll and Bute Council local authority area. The site is not located within any environmental designation.
The existing operational wind farm comprises 14 wind turbines with a tip height of approximately 54.1 m and a capacity of 600 kilowatts (kW) providing a total installed capacity of 8.4 megawatts (MW).
Beinn Ghlas Wind Farm Repowering (the Proposed Development)
Nadara is proposing to submit an application for consent in the near future to replace the existing wind turbines at Beinn Ghlas with more modern, higher producing machines.
If consented, the existing turbines would be removed, and the site would be reinstated except where infrastructure can be used for the repowering project.
What has changed since the last public exhibitions?
Following further work in relation to mitigation of potential impacts on ornithology, a more compact layout has been designed comprising up to 7 wind turbines (a reduction of 5 turbines from the layout presented in January 2023), with a maximum blade tip height of up to 149.9 m. This reduced scheme would have a generating capacity of approximately 33.6 MW.