Millennium East (49.6 MW wind farm)
Millennium East is a 49.6 MW wind farm project in Highland, Scotland. Its status in the Renewable Energy Planning Database (July 2026 extract) is: application submitted on 13 August 2025, no decision recorded; the record was last updated on 8 January 2026. As a project over 50 MW in Scotland, it is decided by Scottish Ministers under Section 36.
Planning timeline
| Date | Stage |
|---|---|
| 13 August 2025 | Application submitted |
Project details
- Technology
- wind farm
- Capacity
- 49.6 MW
- Status (REPD)
- application submitted
- Record last updated
- 8 January 2026
- Operator or applicant
- Renantis UK Limited
- Planning authority
- Scottish Government (S36)
- Planning application reference
- ECU00005013
- Turbines
- 8
- Turbine height
- 200 m
- Address (REPD)
- Millennium Windfarm, on The Achlain and Invergarry amd Aberchalder Estates, Glengarry Invergarry, Inverness-Shire, (nr Glen Moriston, Fort Augustus)
- Council area (by location)
- not known
- REPD reference
- 15787
The scheme also includes battery storage, recorded separately in REPD (application submitted).
Earlier applications for this site
| Application | MW | Submitted | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| Millennium South EC00002077 | 35 | 22 May 2014 | replaced by a revised application |
Who decides
As a project over 50 MW in Scotland, it is decided by Scottish Ministers under Section 36. Scottish Government (S36) refused 18% of 334 decided solar, wind and battery applications in REPD (median 127 weeks to a decision). Across all UK planning authorities 19% of 10,236 decided applications were refused.
Other large projects within 10 km
| Project | Type | MW | Status | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Millennium Extension | wind farm | 10 | operational | 3.5 |
| Millennium Extension II | wind farm | 15 | operational | 3.7 |
| Millennium Windfarm | wind farm | 40 | operational | 3.7 |
| Beinneun II Windfarm | wind farm | 137 | application submitted | 4.5 |
| Tomchrasky Estate Wind farm | wind farm | 84 | approved, not built | 5.5 |
| Beinneun Windfarm Extension | wind farm | 23.8 | operational | 7.4 |
| Beinneun | wind farm | 85 | operational | 7.4 |
| Torrdhuin, Auchteraw Battery Storage Facility | battery storage | 49.9 | operational | 7.5 |
| Auchteraw Energy Storage | battery storage | 20 | application withdrawn | 7.5 |
Status and dates as recorded in the Renewable Energy Planning Database (July 2026 extract); the database is compiled from public sources and can lag behind council decisions. Location: REPD grid reference (57.1254, -4.8556).