As many as 24 turbines could be built at a wind farm being planned for a site in south-east Caithness – 11 more than currently proposed.
Renewable energy company RWE will host a public drop-in event in Lybster next week to outline a potential extension of its consented Golticlay Wind Farm, inland from the village.
Consent was granted by Scottish ministers in December for a variation to a previously approved planning application for 19 turbines. It involved reducing the number of turbines to 13.
However, a spokesperson for RWE said the German-based developer is consulting on “an additional wind farm, with up to 11 additional turbines – therefore up to 24 turbines in total between Golticlay and Golticlay Extension”.
The Golticlay turbines have been consented with a maximum blade-tip height of 180m. The variation approved in December included an increase in the operational period from 25 to 35 years.
One resident warned this week that the county is in danger of being turned into an “industrialised landscape” and a “wasteland”.
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