The proposed facility, a joint venture between Swedish state-owned firm Vattenfall and British renewables company Greencoat, will contain 50 turbines, and provide 235MW of power to the Scottish grid, enough to power 170,000 homes.
The South Kyle site, as it has been dubbed, will also generate £38m for the local economy according to Vattenfall, although the immediate future of the facility has been thrown into uncertainty because of Covid-19. The joint venture partners initially planned for the site to begin operation in the first quarter of 2023, although it remains to be seen whether construction and development will begin on schedule.
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