Proposals have been put forward to build a wind farm a few miles from New Cumnock in East Ayrshire with turbines measuring up to 260m (850ft) tall – twice the height of The Glasgow Tower, Scotland’s tallest building.
The bid to create a new 50MW wind farm will generate enough energy to power more than 36,000 homes – or a town the size of Paisley – and save 33,000 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions each year.
The proposal constitutes an extension to the 105.6MW Lethans wind farm, which was approved last year but is yet to be built.
The second phase will feature up to 11 turbines, with the tallest measuring 260m at its highest point – more than double the height of the Glasgow Tower and higher than the supports on the Queensferry Crossing.
(The world’s tallest existing wind turbine is in the German town of Gaildorf, near Stuttgart, with a total height of 246.5m.)
They would also be 40m taller than the biggest of the 22 turbines in the original Lethans development.
Blueprints show that the turbines would be visibile in certain directions an estimated 50km away. https://www.scotsman.com/news/environment/worlds-tallest-land-wind-farm-planned-scottish-site-3137060?fbclid=IwAR1sZDtm-XCXtRuLZOlJhSGgHOQ88WAWATb9-MYPC4aXAo0tx9biTERGHb4
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