Turbine deliveries to SSE’s Dunmaglass Wind Farm, located around 25km south of Inverness, started back in May this year when the components of the 33 wind turbines started to make their way to site.
Shortly after the turbine deliveries began, work to erect the turbines started and, as of this week, the team have now completed 23 of the 33 turbines due to be installed at the site.
As our highest wind farm, situated at around 700m above sea level, erecting these turbines can prove very difficult with low visibility and weather conditions sometimes causing construction to be postponed.
Ross Cowie, Dunmaglass Site Construction Manager said: “Being our highest wind farm means that, although there are many benefits like great views and strong winds, there are also some downsides when it comes to construction, particularly when the Scottish weather isn’t in our favour.
“The past few weeks have given us a great opportunity to get some more turbines up safely and means that we are now we only have ten more to go.
“Hopefully the weather will be kind to us over the coming weeks so we can get ready to celebrate the next milestone – all the turbines being built.”
Turbine deliveries to Dunmaglass are expected to continue until early Autumn 2016 with the site expected to become fully operational in early 2017.
You can find out more information on Dunmaglass at sse.com/Dunmaglass .