The Sròndoire Community Wind Farm has secured debt funding of £8 million from a new City-based lending platform. The funders include KKR, a leading global investment firm, the Green Investment Bank, owned by the UK Government, and specialist investment managers Temporis Capital LLP, who previously managed the Ventus Funds’ investment in the very successful Allt Dearg Community Wind Farm. Allt Dearg is a sister project to Sròndoire.

After five cloudy Windy Bus Tour trips over the summer months, visitors at the sixth and final trip of the season on Saturday 6th September were rewarded with clear(ish) skies and the fantastic views over to Jura and the Islands, and down Loch Fyne.

The Ardrishaig Community Trust recently concluded the purchase of the North Hall in Ardrishaig from the Church of Scotland.

Recently data analysis reveals that Allt Dearg was exporting renewable energy for 95% of the time during 2013.

After Argyll & Bute Council members approved the changes to the Sròndoire Community Wind Farm tower heights at the monthly Planning Committee meeting on Wednesday 18th June. Work started on Friday 20th June to construct the new access tracks for the 6MW three turbine wind farm adjacent to the Allt Dearg Community Wind Farm.

After a record beating first year of operation, which saw the Allt Dearg Community Wind Farm achieve the highest capacity factor in Great Britain, the Ardrishaig Community Trust has enjoyed the commercial benefits of the winter weather with a further payment of £81,000 from their investment in the Allt Dearg Community Wind Farm partnership.

Renewable energy production data recently published by the Renewable Energy Foundation, an organisation opposed to the public support of renewable energy, has confirmed that Allt Dearg was Great Britain’s top performing wind farm in 2013.

Allt Dearg Wind Farmers will be operating the popular wind farm bus tour once a month from April through to September.

The Allt Dearg Community Wind Farm, which is partly owned by the Ardrishaig community, has reached record breaking levels of energy production in the first year of operation. The very windy weather that caused problems in Argyll throughout December pushed the wind farm’s energy output close to a monthly Capacity Factor of 75%, and the annual Capacity Factor to over 50%.

The Allt Dearg Community Wind Farm has been shortlisted in the Community Initiative and Best Project categories of the Scottish Green Energy Awards, presented by Scottish Renewables, the trade body that represents the renewable energy industry in Scotland. The winners will be announced at the Scottish Green Energy Awards Dinner on 5th December in Edinburgh.