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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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Giant's Burn Wind Farm is one of two development projects for Statkraft within Argyll and Bute Council Area.  We have submitted a planning application for the An Càrr Dubh Wind Farm near Inveraray in March 2023.  You can read more about it here.

Giant's Burn Wind Farm is located in the Argyll and Bute Council area, approximately 2.5km north-west of Dunoon and 1.9km south-west of Sandbank.

Our revised proposal has reduced the number of turbines from nine to seven.

Since the first exhibition we have carried out further studies and listened to your feedback. Our revised proposal has reduced the number of turbines to seven, six turbines with a maximum blade tip height of 200 metres and one turbine with a maximum of 180 metres.

You can see the proposed layout of the site under project documents.

Should the proposal be submitted to the Energy Consents Unit, the application will also seek consent for the necessary infrastructure and other requirements for the project.  This will include, tracks, a substation, laydown areas, construction compounds, energy storage systems, site entrance, met mast and other ancillary infrastructure. 

Statkraft are at the forefront of battery and grid stability projects, which are increasingly vital as the amount of renewable energy generation in the UK increases.

To maximise the opportunities for renewable energy on site, Statkraft are assessing the potential for storage to be included in the planning application.

We are currently working with SSEN on a proposal to connect the wind farm at Dunoon substation.  Should the project be consented, the grid connection would be the responsibility of SSEN and would be subject to a separate consenting process by them.

The operational lifespan of the project is likely to be up to 50 years.  After this time, the wind farm will either be decommissioned, have it's 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.

The proposed development is expected to make use of existing forestry tracks to access the site.  Where felling is required to accommodate the wind farm, we will seek to minimise the loss of woodland area in accordance with Scottish Government's Control of Woodland Removal Policy (Forestry and Land Scotland, 2009)

The second series of public exhibitions are being held 31 March - 21 April. The project team will be there to share our updated proposals for Giant’s Burn Wind Farm.

Simliar to our first exhibition over 10,000 households and businesses surrounding the site within the Argyll and Bute local authority were sent invites to attend, landing on doormats from 17 March, and advertisements were placed in the local Dunoon Observer 21 March and 28 March 2025.  

The exhibition will provide residents and other interested parties the opportunity to review our proposals and provide their views.For those unable to attend our in-person events, an online exhibition will be available between 31 March – 21 April 2025, via a link on this website.  The website link will be available from 31 March 2025.

Residents can provide comments and feedback by completing a feedback form on the project website, by completing a feedback form received with Public Exhibitions Invitation or by coming along to the in-person exhibitions. All feedback must be receveid by 21 April 2025.

We plan to submit our application in early summer 2025. We will advertise when this has happened. There will be an opportunity to submit a formal representation about your views on the project to the Scottish Government Energy Consents Unit

The website will be kept up to date with the latest project information and 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.

Yes. Statkraft are committed to delivering a community benefit fund for Giant's Burn Wind Farm of £5,000 per MW of wind 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 committed to offering shared ownership for Giant's Burn wind farm 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 are keen to work with local business organisations such as the 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.

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 Giant's Burn if it is consented.  As we require broadband, we have commiteed 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 wind farm projects.