LOCATION/TYPE

NEWS HOME

[ exact phrase in "" • results by date ]

[ Google-powered • results by relevance ]


Archive
RSS

Add NWW headlines to your site (click here)

Get weekly updates

WHAT TO DO
when your community is targeted

RSS

RSS feeds and more

Keep Wind Watch online and independent!

Donate via Paypal

Donate via Stripe

Selected Documents

All Documents

Research Links

Alerts

Press Releases

FAQs

Campaign Material

Photos & Graphics

Videos

Allied Groups

News Watch Home

New windfarm planned at Loch Ness 

Credit:  By Jane Candlish | The Press and Journal | 4 August 2014 | www.pressandjournal.co.uk ~~

Plans have been unveiled for a new windfarm on the hills above Loch Ness.

Coriolis Energy wants to build 14 turbines on the Dell Estate, near Whitebridge.

The devices would be 426ft high and the developer claims they would have the potential to generate a total of 42MW of electricity.

New tracks would also be created on the Monadhliath Mountains to provide access to the turbines.

The site is close to the reservoir serving SSE’s Glendoe hydro scheme.

The windfarm would also be adjacent to a site the energy giant has earmarked for a 67-turbine windfarm at Stronelairg.

According to documents submitted with the application, construction would take 18 months, with a maximum of 90 people working on the project.

A lengthy environmental statement has also been submitted.

The plans will now be scrutinised by Highland Council and other interested groups, including local community councils, Scottish Natural Heritage and Scottish Water.

The developer originally wanted to erect 22 turbines, but altered its plans following concerns about the visual impact of the scheme.

It initially reduced the number to 16, but has now removed a further two turbines.

Harry Malyon, development director for Coriolis Energy, said: “We hope that people will look at the detail of the application. We have taken a great deal of care over the design to minimise the effects.

“We welcome the planning process as it allows people to make their own minds up on the application.”

When the plans were on display in 2012, residents welcomed the reduction in the number of turbines.

The application brings the number of consented or planned windfarms in the Loch Ness area to nine.

Source:  By Jane Candlish | The Press and Journal | 4 August 2014 | www.pressandjournal.co.uk

This article is the work of the source indicated. Any opinions expressed in it are not necessarily those of National Wind Watch.

The copyright of this article resides with the author or publisher indicated. As part of its noncommercial educational effort to present the environmental, social, scientific, and economic issues of large-scale wind power development to a global audience seeking such information, National Wind Watch endeavors to observe “fair use” as provided for in section 107 of U.S. Copyright Law and similar “fair dealing” provisions of the copyright laws of other nations. Send requests to excerpt, general inquiries, and comments via e-mail.

Wind Watch relies entirely
on User Funding
   Donate via Paypal
(via Paypal)
Donate via Stripe
(via Stripe)

Share:

e-mail X FB LI TG TG Share


News Watch Home

Get the Facts
CONTACT DONATE PRIVACY ABOUT SEARCH
© National Wind Watch, Inc.
Use of copyrighted material adheres to Fair Use.
"Wind Watch" is a registered trademark.

 Follow:

Wind Watch on X Wind Watch on Facebook

Wind Watch on Linked In Wind Watch on Mastodon