Project details
What is the Carrach Wind Farm proposal?
The Carrach wind farm proposal is a planning application for nine, medium sized commercial scale wind turbines with a blade tip no greater than 84m and with a maximum generating capacity of 800kW each. The turbines specified in the proposal are Enercon E48s. The capacity of Carrach Wind Farm is 7.2 MW and would be classed as a small to medium scale project. As a comparison, Drumderg wind farm near Alyth has 16 turbines each of 107m in height and generates 37 MW. The Carrach proposal will also include associated infrastructure such as access roads and connections to the electricity grid.
Ten turbines had been specified in the original design but following extensive environmental assessment work around the site and public consultation a single turbine was dropped and the layout adjusted accordingly.
Where is it?
The wind farm will be sited on privately owned agricultural land at Welton, Carrach and Kinclune approximately 8km to the west-north-west of Kirriemuir, Angus. The Location Maps page shows the proposed location of the project and a more detailed map showing the proposed locations of the turbines.
What will it look like?
Like all features in the landscape, the views of the wind farm would vary from one location to another. The Viewpoints page presents a range of photomontages. These are photographic images with the turbines superimposed at the correct geographic position and scale. It is important to note that visualisations on this website are technical tools used to illustrate what the project may look like. They are designed to be printed at a larger size and viewed from a certain distance.
What kind of infrastructure would be required to support it?
To build the project about 6km of access tracks (see Documents page for map) will need to be developed around the site. To export the electricity to the grid a series of underground cables will connect each wind turbine to a small single story substation building and then into the local grid operated by Scottish & Southern Energy.
How would the project be constructed?
There would be several main phases of work involved in building the project.
• Improvement of the site access
• Construction of access tracks and cable trenches to turbine locations and laying of electricity and communications cables
• Construction of turbine foundations
• Delivery and erection of turbine towers
• Commissioning of turbine towers
• Site reinstatement
It is proposed that the road stone for the access tracks would come from a single ‘borrow pit’ on the site restricting much of the transport of materials to around the site itself.
It is estimated that approximately 100 deliveries of concrete would be required to be brought onto the site together with 3 articulated trailer lorries carrying reinforcement steel for the foundation. Approximately 5 articulated low loader deliveries per turbine would be required to deliver components and a further lorry-load would be required to transport the necessary cabling for the project.
It is intended that the 9 turbines would be landed at Dundee then transported north along the A90 towards Forfar taking the A926 to Kirriemuir. From Kirriemuir they will travel to the site via Kirkton of Kingoldrum on the B951.
Public road alterations are not considered necessary to accommodate the transportation of the turbines to the site.
The Carrach wind farm proposal is a planning application for nine, medium sized commercial scale wind turbines with a blade tip no greater than 84m and with a maximum generating capacity of 800kW each. The turbines specified in the proposal are Enercon E48s. The capacity of Carrach Wind Farm is 7.2 MW and would be classed as a small to medium scale project. As a comparison, Drumderg wind farm near Alyth has 16 turbines each of 107m in height and generates 37 MW. The Carrach proposal will also include associated infrastructure such as access roads and connections to the electricity grid.
Ten turbines had been specified in the original design but following extensive environmental assessment work around the site and public consultation a single turbine was dropped and the layout adjusted accordingly.
Where is it?
The wind farm will be sited on privately owned agricultural land at Welton, Carrach and Kinclune approximately 8km to the west-north-west of Kirriemuir, Angus. The Location Maps page shows the proposed location of the project and a more detailed map showing the proposed locations of the turbines.
What will it look like?
Like all features in the landscape, the views of the wind farm would vary from one location to another. The Viewpoints page presents a range of photomontages. These are photographic images with the turbines superimposed at the correct geographic position and scale. It is important to note that visualisations on this website are technical tools used to illustrate what the project may look like. They are designed to be printed at a larger size and viewed from a certain distance.
What kind of infrastructure would be required to support it?
To build the project about 6km of access tracks (see Documents page for map) will need to be developed around the site. To export the electricity to the grid a series of underground cables will connect each wind turbine to a small single story substation building and then into the local grid operated by Scottish & Southern Energy.
How would the project be constructed?
There would be several main phases of work involved in building the project.
• Improvement of the site access
• Construction of access tracks and cable trenches to turbine locations and laying of electricity and communications cables
• Construction of turbine foundations
• Delivery and erection of turbine towers
• Commissioning of turbine towers
• Site reinstatement
It is proposed that the road stone for the access tracks would come from a single ‘borrow pit’ on the site restricting much of the transport of materials to around the site itself.
It is estimated that approximately 100 deliveries of concrete would be required to be brought onto the site together with 3 articulated trailer lorries carrying reinforcement steel for the foundation. Approximately 5 articulated low loader deliveries per turbine would be required to deliver components and a further lorry-load would be required to transport the necessary cabling for the project.
It is intended that the 9 turbines would be landed at Dundee then transported north along the A90 towards Forfar taking the A926 to Kirriemuir. From Kirriemuir they will travel to the site via Kirkton of Kingoldrum on the B951.
Public road alterations are not considered necessary to accommodate the transportation of the turbines to the site.
