EDF, Wood JV get consent to scale down turbines for 129.6 MW Stornoway wind farm on the Isle of Lewis

The Scottish Ministers have approved the additional consent for the Stornoway Wind Farm on the Isle of Lewis in Scotland.

The new consent will give Lewis Wind Power, a 50/50 joint venture between EDF Renewables and engineering group Wood, the option of using the very latest onshore wind turbines on the market, which may be necessary to generate power at the cost required to compete for long-term contracts in a government-backed auction taking place this year.

This new consented design features up to 24 turbines with a tip height of up to 180m and 9 turbines with a tip height of up to 156m, a total of up to 33 wind turbines. This compares to a maximum of 36 turbines at up to 145m in the project’s earlier consent (from 2012, which was then amended in 2015). The latest consent also increases the separation distance between a number of turbines in the eastern part of the site and the town of Stornoway.