LUC’s experienced planning and landscape team is currently advising developer clients across the UK to help ‘re-power’ their consented windfarm sites.

With onshore wind in the UK currently ineligible for funding under the current Contract for Difference (CfD), many consented, but not yet constructed, onshore windfarms currently have no viable route to market.

Therefore to increase financial viability, developers need innovative ways to increase the output from consented sites.

LUC’s landscape-led re-powering feasibility studies identify the opportunities and risks associated with i) increasing the tip height of consented turbines, ii) re-designing the layout to accommodate taller turbines with a larger output, iii) re-designing the site to incorporate more turbines or extending the site.

Our advice enables our clients to make informed decisions with regards to the opportunities for maximising output from their sites.