Renewable energy
Wind turbine map
Our interactive map of wind energy development across Highland has information on schemes that are Constructed or Constructed – Removed or Under Construction or Approved or In Planning or Refused or Withdrawn or Expired or Scoping and Screening.
Download the turbine locations:
A full-screen version of the map below is available here.
The map is designed for, and will work best with browsers IE11, Chrome or Mozilla Firefox.
The location of a very small number of micro and small turbines where applications were made before 2010 are still to be located requiring being extracted from the paper records used at that time. These will be added when available.
Tips for using the maps
Zooming and panning
You can zoom in and out of the map by using the following:
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+ and - buttons
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Mouse wheel
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Hold down Shift key and then drag a window using left mouse button across the area you want to zoom into
You can pan around the map by using the following:
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Hold down the left mouse button and dragging across the map
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Press the arrow keys on your keyboard.
Home
Clicking the home icon zooms back to the full extents of Highland.
Search
You can also use the search box to search for addresses. Type partial addresses, postcodes or place names into the Search box and press the return key on your keyboard to zoom to the location.
Layers list
Clicking the Layers list icon opens up a window containing a list of all the map layers available.
Groups of layers can be turned on or off via the tick box to the left of each layer.
Viewing attributes
You can view the attributes for a specific feature you have clicked. Simply click the cursor on the item you wish to see attribute information for. There may be more than one item at the location clicked – if so click the arrow at the top of the pop-out box to inspect other items.
Pop out map
Much more functionality is available in the pop-out map, including displaying attribute tables, measuring distances and displaying grid references.