The facility will have 35 wind turbines and construction work is expected to begin immediately. This wind farm will add to the 2,000MW of renewable capacity achieved by Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE) at the end of March 2008, and is a step towards its target of 4,000MW of renewable capacity by 2013.
Ian Marchant, SSE’s CEO, said: Gordonbush is the fifth SSE wind farm to receive consent in the last 18 months or so. While the Gordonbush proposal has spent almost five years in the planning system, there are encouraging signs that the planning process is beginning to speed up. Given the scale of the energy challenges facing the country, it is important these encouraging signs represent a sustained commitment to a better planning process.
