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About The Developer
Statkraft is at the heart of the UK’s energy transition. Since 2006, Statkraft has gone from strength to strength in the UK, building experience across wind, solar, hydro, storage, grid stability, EV charging, green hydrogen and a thriving markets business.
Statkraft is a global company in energy market operations, more than 7,000 employees in over 20 countries.
We’ve invested over £1.4 billion in the UK's renewable energy infrastructure and facilitated over 4.3 GW of new-build renewable energy generation through Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs).
Across our UK businesses we employ more than 550 staff in England, Scotland and Wales and play a key role in helping the global business reach its goal of 9 GW of developed wind and solar power by 2025.
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About Appin Wind Farm
The current proposal reduces the number of turbines from 17 to 9.
We are proposing a turbine height of 200m reduced from 230m.
The Wind Farm site boundary lies approximately 12.5km to the west of Thornhill and 7km north-west of the village of Moniaive in Dumfries and Galloway.
To keep up to date throughout the project's development, please register for updates and feel free to Get in touch.
The Proposed Development is on a site of commercial forestry. Where additional felling is required to accommodate the wind farm, we will seek to minimise the loss of woodland area in accordance with the Scottish Government's Control of Woodland Removal Policy (Forestry Commission Scotland, 2009).
There is no battery storage proposed at this site.
We area assessing a number of grid options to facilitate a grid connection for Appin, which is not yet determined. The grid connection would be the responsibility of ScottishPower Energy Networks (SPEN) and would be subject to a separate consenting process by them.
The project duration is likely to be up to 50 years. After this time, the wind farm will either be decommissioned, have its life extended or re-powered. A bond is put in place before construction starts and that bond is used to decommission the project at the end of its lifetime.
Consultation & Engagement
We held our second round of public exhibitions in-person and online from 17 February to 9 March 2025.
Thank you to everyone from the local community who attended our drop in events at Glencairn Memorial Institute, Monavie on Wednesday 26 February and Lagwyne Hall, Carsphairn and Tynron Parish Hall on Thursday 27 February and visited our online exhibition.
Over 900 households and businesses within c. 10km of the site were invited to attend, and advertisements were placed in the local newspapers, Dumfries and Galloway Standard and Galloway News.
If interested, whether a local resident or a business, you can register for updates on the Get in touch page and we will contact you as we progress the plans. We follow all GDPR guidelines in relation to personal data and you can opt out at any time.
- the ECU webite at www.energyconsents.scot/Register.aspx;
- by email to the Scottish Government Energy Consents Unit mailbox at representations@gov.scot;
- or by post to the Scottish Government, Energy Consents Unit, 4th Floor, 5 Atlantic Quay, 150 Broomielaw, Glasgow, G2 8LU, identifying the proposal and specifying the gorund for representation
Local Benefits
Yes. Statkraft are committed to delivering community benefit fund for Appin Wind Farm of £5,000 per MW installed per annum in line with Scottish Government Good Practice Principles, should the project be consented.
We are not prescriptive in how community benefit funds are set up and administered and look forward to working with communities to create a community benefit fund that delivers meaningful benefits to communities surrounding the development.
The biggest opportunity to bring local jobs is during the construction phase.
Statkraft always endeavours to be a good neighbour and when bringing new investment to the community, we look at how we can share the economic value of our projects. As such, we will look to develop links with local business groups such as the Chamber of Commerce to understand the mutual benefits of using local suppliers. We are keen to work with local suppliers. Please fill in the Local suppliers registration form if you are a local company interested in being a supplier, or if you would like to suggest a company we could contact.
We would like to hear your ideas as to how our project can foster links with local businesses.
We are often asked by people if we can help deliver faster broadband, or even get them connected in the first place.
We need high quality broadband to operate our wind farms, including for Appin Wind Farm if it is given the go ahead. As we require broadband, we have committed to explore whether it can also help benefit the local and wider community as well. We believe we are the only developer to commit to funding a feasibility study to look into the potential for fibre and wireless line of sight broadband for all our new wind farm projects.
We are committed to offering shared ownership for the Appin wind farm project and are happy to follow this up should there be interest within the community to explore this further.
We work with Local Energy Scotland to explore community ownership opportunities and we can arrange separate meetings with them if there is interest.
Yes. We have a Local suppliers registration link on the website and please get in touch if you are a local business and interested in the project. We our Members of the Dumfries and Galloway Chamber of Commerce and we plan to organise 'Meet the Developer' events for businesses in the future to facilitate working with the local supply chain.