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Howpark Solar Farm

Howpark Solar Farm
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Park information

The Scottish Borders

Location

15 MW

Installed Capacity (Direct Current)

4,300

Households supplied with green electricity (based on our yearly expected production in our portfolio)

40 years

Lifespan of the Solar Farm

]> £6,000

Community Benefit Fund per year

]> Habitat & Biodiversity

Improvements

Project History

Howpark Wind Farm is Eurowind Energy’s first UK (soon to be) operational asset. The 16-Megawatt (MW) project consists of eight Vestas V80 wind turbines; the turbines have a hub height of 60 m and a tip height of 100 m.

Eurowind Energy is seeking consent from the Scottish Borders Council for a solar photovoltaic generation station at the site of our wind farm to maximise the existing wind farm grid connection. This is in line with our ambition to create ‘hybrid parks’ at our sites.

Further information on our Howpark Solar Farm is presented below on this webpage. Further information on our Howpark Wind Farm project can be found here.

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Introducing a new solar project

A new solar photovoltaic project at Howpark is under development. We are maximising our 16-Megawatt (MW) wind farm grid connection by connecting a new solar project to the same connection. By installing solar at Howpark, we will better ensure that green electricity is always being produced – when the wind is not blowing, the solar project generates green electricity for the National Grid, and vice versa.

The project is located in the Scottish Borders, Berwickshire, approximately 2 km to the northeast of Grantshouse, as shown on the map.

The solar farm will have an installed capacity of up to 15 MW (Direct Current).

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Project Status

  • Following confirmation from the Scottish Borders Council that the proposed development was non-Environmental Impact Assesment (EIA) [SBC Reference: 23/0031/SCR] a local level planning application is due to be lodged with the planning authority in the coming days. 

  • Once submitted and validated the planning application will be available for viewing and comment on the Scottish Borders Council planning portal. When available for viewing this webpage will be updated to include the planning application reference number which members of the public can use to find the application on the portal.

  • Once submitted, Eurowind Energy will endeavour to upload the planning application documents to this webpage to offer members of the public an alternative way of viewing the planning application; however, formal comments should still be lodged via the Council planning portal.  

Contact us

For further information, please contact us by email using the following email address: [email protected]