Key Facts
- Client: CRE Energy, a subsidiary of Scottish Power
- Balfour Beatty company involved: Balfour Kilpatrick
- Balfour Kilpatrick, in joint venture with Morrison Construction Services, was awarded the Whitelee Wind Farm infrastructure contract in November 2006
- The £80m project will be Europe’s largest on-shore wind farm, located south of Glasgow in Scotland
- Balfour Kilpatrick will carry out work worth in excess of £20m
- The company will design, supply and install electrical and control systems, including switchgear and cabling, and construct the substation and control buildings necessary for the gathering and transporting of power to the Grid
- On completion, the 140 turbines will cover an area of approximately 5,500 hectares
- The site measures 11.5km from east to west and 7km from north to south
- The 322MW wind farm is scheduled to come on-stream in mid-2009
- The turbines will eventually produce over 2% of Scotland’s electricity needs
- That is enough to power 200,000 homes - roughly equivalent to the housing needs of Glasgow
- Balfour Kilpatrick has already worked on wind farms at Rothes (50MW), Paul’s Hill (65MW) and Beinn Tharsuinn (29MW)
