Brookfield Renewable UK has been given the go-ahead on appeal to build the eight-turbine Larbrax wind farm in southwest Scotland.
Scottish officials overturned rejection by Dumfries and Galloway Council, a decision made last year largely on the grounds of landscape and visual impacts.
“The locations where adverse landscape or visual effects would be experienced are limited, and the benefits of the proposal, particularly the contribution it would make to renewable energy targets, are significant,” said the Planning and Environmental Appeals Division.
Larbrax is expected to feature turbines of around 2.5MW at the Rinns of Galloway site. Tips are set at 100 metres.
Brookfield now has consent for more than 140MW of onshore projects in Scotland, of which the 18MW Tralorg in Ayrshire is the only with a short-term route to market.
Image: Brookfield assets are spread across Europe and North America (Brookfield)
