SSE approves 47 MW extension in Gordonbush wind farm

UK utility SSE Plc has approved the 11-turbine extension to the existing 70MW, 35-turbine Gordonbush wind farm. The installed capacity of the onshore extension will be 47 MW.

The new facility will be built about 12 km northwest of Brora in the Scottish Highlands. The construction on the extension will commence in March using some of the infrastructure and the grid connection of the original Gordonbush wind farm.

The developer has appointed RJ MacLeod, one of Scotland’s largest privately-owned civil engineering and building contractors, as the preferred principal contractor of the civil and cabling works.