Lairg
Lairg is a 7.5 MW onshore wind farm in Scotland, operated by WPO UK Services. The UK government lists it as operational in its register of power stations (DUKES table 5.11, May 2025).
- Onshore
- Scotland
Key facts
- Installed capacity
- 7.5 MW
- Status
- Operational
- Technology
- Wind Β· Onshore
- Operator
- WPO UK Services
- Region
- Scotland
- Country
- Scotland
- Grid connection (DUKES)
- LV
- Combined heat & power
- No
- Coordinates
- 58.0027, -4.3487
Location
Map position from the published coordinates. For small sites this can be an approximate point rather than the exact boundary. Map Β© OpenStreetMap contributors.
How Lairg compares
At a typical UK load factor for this technology (about 26% of the maximum possible output), a 7.5 MW station would generate roughly 17 GWh of electricity in a year, similar to the annual use of about 6,330 homes at 2,700 kWh each. This is an illustrative estimate, not the station's metered output: real generation varies with weather, availability and grid constraints.
Wind farms turn the kinetic energy of the wind into electricity with turbines. Output varies with wind speed. Offshore sites usually see stronger, steadier winds than onshore sites and so generate more per MW of capacity.
All UK wind farms Wind farms in Scotland All run by WPO UK ServicesNearby generating sites
- Shin Power Station-A,G Β· 18.6 MW hydroelectric station7.8 km
- Shin Diversion Dam - A Β· 0.1 MW small hydro scheme7.8 km
- Achany Windfarm Β· 38 MW onshore wind farm8.9 km
- Rosehall Β· 24.7 MW onshore wind farm11.7 km
- Cassley Power Station - A,C,E Β· 10 MW hydroelectric station14.1 km
- Lairg Power Station Β· 3.5 MW small hydro scheme16.7 km
- Kilbraur Β· 67.5 MW onshore wind farm17.6 km
- Beinn Tharsuinn Β· 29.8 MW onshore wind farm22.0 km
Also operated by WPO UK Services
WPO UK Services operates 38 sites in the register. Largest first:
Planning history
From the government's Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD), matched to this site by location, capacity and name.
- Planning status
- Operational
- Site name in planning record
- Lairg Wind Farm
- Developer / operator
- ABO Wind
- Planning authority
- Highland
- Planning reference
- 06/00376/FULSU
- Application submitted
- 5 September 2006
- Permission granted
- 8 April 2008
- Began operating
- 1 January 2012
- Capacity in planning record
- 7.5 MW
- Address
- Land To South Of Toroboll Lairg Highland, Highland
- REPD reference
- 2796
Source
Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ), Digest of UK Energy Statistics (DUKES), table 5.11: power stations in the United Kingdom β operational at end of May 2025.
Capacity is installed capacity as published, not current output. Status reflects the source date, not live operation.
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Last checked by Octary: 15 July 2026
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