Gawnsmoss, Cairnhill and Gledsgreen are three 800kW wind turbines built on three neighbouring farms near Banff, in Moray. The three developments, which share a Distribution Network grid connection, are developed by three Community Interest Companies for the benefit of the local community and qualified for Local Energy Scotland funding.
In addition to funding given under the Scottish Government’s Community And Renewable Energy Scheme (CARES), a bank loan was also required to construct the developments. Green Cat Renewables provided Financial Procurement helping the developments obtain loans from Close Bothers while negotiating Power Purchase Agreements for the turbines, and managing an extremely accelerated Meter Operator appointment and meter installation.
Green Cat Renewables were employed by the CICs in late October 2016 to provide project management and client’s engineer services. No work on site had started at that time, and the project required three sets of:
All of which needed to be completed before the Feed-in Tariff deadline at the end of March 2017.
GCR worked closely with the landowner, civil and electrical contractors, turbine manufacturer, DNO and other parties to ensure the successful and timely build and connection of the developments.
