Appin Wind Farm

The proposed Appin Wind Farm is located in Dumfries and Galloway, approximately 6.2 km north of Moniaive and 14.8 km east of Carsphairn.

In May 2025, our Section 36 application for Appin Wind Farm was submitted to the Scottish Government’s Energy Consent Unit, and Additional information was submitted in July 2026 (see Notice below). Our full application can be found under the Planning Application Documents section of our website or on the Energy Consents Unit website (Ref. ECU00003447).

It is proposed that Appin Wind Farm will consist of up to nine turbines, each with a maximum blade tip height of 200 m.

The number of turbines and the height has been reduced following engagement during the scoping process and following feedback from our public exhibitions in 2022. We held our second round of public exhibitions in-person from 17 February to 9 March 2025 to provide the community another opportunity to comment on the Proposed Development.

If the project is consented, it will generate enough electricity to power an estimated 82,000 homes per year, helping Scotland meet its Net Zero emissions target by 2045.

You can view the Public Exhibitions documents, Scoping Request documents in the project documents section. Or find out more about the project by taking time to read our Frequently Asked Questions or by getting in touch.

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Public Notice

APPIN WIND FARM LTD

ELECTRICITY ACT 1989

TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING (SCOTLAND) ACT 1997 

THE ELECTRICITY WORKS (ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT) (SCOTLAND) REGULATIONS 2017

Notice is hereby given that Appin Wind Farm Ltd (“the Company”) with company registration number 12672772, having its registered office 19th Floor, 22 Bishopsgate, London EC2N 4BQ has submitted additional information to the Scottish Ministers in relation to the application for consent under section 36 of the Electricity Act 1989 to construct and operate a wind farm known as Appin Wind Farm (“the Proposed Development”), located in Dumfries and Galloway, approximately 6.2 km north of Moniaive and 14.8 km east of Carsphairn (Central Grid Reference BNG 272887, 597709. The installed capacity of the proposed generating station would exceed 50 MW, comprising up to 9 turbines with a maximum ground to blade tip height of 200 metres, and has been subject to Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) under the Electricity Works (Environmental Impact Assessment) (Scotland) and an EIA Report has been produced in May 2025.

The Company has also requested a direction under section 57(2) of the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997 that planning permission for the development be deemed to be granted.

The additional information now being submitted includes information in the form of a Grid Connection Appraisal, relating to the prospective grid connection corridor and associated grid connection infrastructure to connect the Proposed Development to the National Grid. Since the grid connection works are necessary for the Proposed Development to operate as proposed, and would not otherwise be built, there is accordingly a requirement to provide environmental information (where available) on their associated likely significant effects, and carry out related consultation under the EIA Regulations. For clarification, the grid connection works are not the subject of the s36 application.

The Additional Information provides assessment of:

• The solus effects of the prospective grid cable works in order to form an in-combination assessment of the wind farm and grid connection works;
• The in-combination assessment of the wind farm with the prospective grid cable works; and
• The cumulative assessment of the wind farm and the prospective grid connection works with other wind farms and their grid connection works where such information is available.

It is also supported by a Planning Statement Update.

copy of the Additional Information and Planning Statement Update, alongside all the application documentation and the EIA Report (‘the information’) is available for public inspection, on the application website https://projects.statkraft.co.uk/appin/planning-application-documents/ or on the Energy Consents Unit Portal at www.energyconsents.scot under application reference ECU00003447.

The additional information and Planning Statement Update is also available for public inspection in person, free of charge, during normal office hours at:

Copies of the additional information and the Planning Statement Update may be obtained from Appin Wind Farm Limited (telephone: 0800 772 0668 / email (ukprojects@statkraft.com) for the cost of £100.

Any new representations on the additional information may be submitted via www.energyconsents.scot, using the relevant Project Name and/or ECU reference number. Please note that you must be in possession of a working email address to submit a representation virtually.

If you would prefer to submit your representation by post, please send to the Scottish Government, Energy Consents Unit, 4th Floor, 5 Atlantic Quay, 150 Broomielaw, Glasgow, G2 8LU, identifying the proposal and specifying the grounds for representation. Written representations should be dated, clearly stating the name (in block capitals) and full postal address of those making representations.

All representations should be received not later than Thursday 13th August 2026. Scottish Ministers may be able to consider written representations received after this date.

Any subsequent additional information which is submitted by the Company will be subject to further public notice in this manner, and representations to such information will be accepted as per this notice.

Where Scottish Ministers decide to exercise their discretion to do so, they can cause a public inquiry to be held.

Scottish Ministers will determine the application for consent in one of two ways:

• Grant consent, with or without conditions attached; or
• Refuse the proposal.

General Data Protection Regulations

The Scottish Government processes representations under the Electricity Act 1989. To support transparency in decision making, the Scottish Government publishes online at www.energyconsents.scot.

privacy notice is published on the Help page at www.energyconsents.scot. This explains how the Scottish Government processes your personal information. If you have any concerns about the processing of your personal information by the Scottish Government, please email EconsentsAdmin@gov.scot or write to Scottish Government, Energy Consents Unit, 4th Floor, 5 Atlantic Quay, 150 Broomielaw, Glasgow, G2 8LU.

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