{"id":89493,"date":"2021-02-24T10:12:31","date_gmt":"2021-02-24T10:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=89493"},"modified":"2021-02-24T10:12:31","modified_gmt":"2021-02-24T10:12:31","slug":"edf-renewables-new-wind-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/energy-news\/edf-renewables-new-wind-farm\/89493\/","title":{"rendered":"Construction begins on new wind farm in North Lanarkshire"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>The construction of seven turbines at West Benhar Wind Farm in North Lanarkshire will begin on 1 March, after the project team secured planning consent for some design changes in September last year<\/h2>\n<p>Scottish contractor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ihbrown.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">I and H Brown<\/a> has been appointed to manage the construction of the project, their work includes building the foundations and substation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vestas.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vestas<\/a> will supply the seven\u00a0V117 4.3 MW machines.<\/p>\n<p>Plans include an increased blade tip height, from 138.5m to 149.9m which will allow for greater electricity generation, and an increased operational life from 25 years to 30.<\/p>\n<p>Planning permission allows for the installation of 8 turbines, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edf-re.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">EDF Renewables<\/a> (EDFR) will only build seven turbines. This is down to advances in turbine technology, so fewer are needed to fulfil the generating requirements of the site.<\/p>\n<p>With a generating capacity of up to 30.1 megawatts (MW), West Benhar will supply <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/energy-news\/solar-farm-at-tye-lane\/84145\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">low carbon electricity<\/a> to power more than 18,000 homes.<\/p>\n<p>The project is expected to take up to 15 months to complete, with turbine delivery starting in mid-February 2022, and completion in June 2022.<\/p>\n<p>EDF Renewables already has an installed capacity of 500 MW of onshore wind in Scotland.<\/p>\n<h3>Journey to a net-zero future<\/h3>\n<p>Stelios Christodoulou, construction project manager, EDFR, said \u201cWe are excited to get work underway, this project is an important addition to our portfolio of onshore wind developments. Not only will it accelerate our journey to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/energy-news\/futureproofing-developments\/84008\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">net-zero future<\/a> but it shows our commitment to investing and growing in Scotland.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will be engaging with the local communities in the coming months to keep them up to date with the project and discuss both the community fund and opportunities for community investment.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Construction of the 7 turbines at West Benhar Wind Farm in North Lanarkshire will begin on 1 March, this comes after the project team secured planning consent for some design changes in September last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[307],"tags":[693,676,430,673,279,952,649],"stakeholder_rel_tag":[],"contributor_rel_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-89493","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-energy-news","7":"tag-climate-change","8":"tag-construction","9":"tag-energy-efficiency","10":"tag-energy","11":"tag-environment","12":"tag-planning","13":"tag-planning-applications"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Construction begins on new wind farm in North Lanarkshire<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Construction of the West Benhar Wind Farm will begin on 1 March, this comes after the project team secured planning consent for some design changes\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/energy-news\/edf-renewables-new-wind-farm\/89493\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Construction begins on new wind farm in North Lanarkshire\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Construction of the West Benhar Wind Farm will begin on 1 March, this comes after the project team secured planning consent for some design changes\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/energy-news\/edf-renewables-new-wind-farm\/89493\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Planning, Building &amp; 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