
Wind farm fund breathes life into sheltered housing development
This wouldn’t have been possible without the support from OnPath Energy, and we are incredibly grateful to their team for their time and support with…
Our 26-turbine wind farm, situated, approximately 5 km south of Strathaven, generates enough clean electricity to power over 63,000 homes each year. Our flagship wind farm, Kype Muir has been generating green electricity since 2019. As well as supporting the UK in transitioning to 100% renewable energy, the community partnership model we developed at Kype Muir enables us to deliver long-term benefits tailored to local needs. Through the Kype Muir Community Partnership, communities take their own share of the wind farm revenues to invest in community-led projects and local causes.
generation capacity
homes powered by clean energy
in local community funds over the lifespan of the wind farm (combined with Kype Muir Extension)
hectares of habitat created
investment in the local economy (combined with Kype Muir Extension)
directly or indirectly supported (combined with Kype Muir Extension)
skills and training fund for the first five years, supporting almost 700 local people
At OnPath Energy, we aim to maximise the benefits our renewables projects bring to the local environment and local communities.
We created our first Community Partnering proposal at Kype Muir Wind Farm in 2019, with the aim of ensuring communities take their own share of the wind farm revenues to invest in their local area, tackling the issues specific to them. This group is the Kype Muir Community Partnership (KMCP).
The KMCP represents the five community council areas which are local to Kype Muir, and each area has two representatives on the panel. If you are interested in applying for a grant, your first action should be to contact your local community council to discuss your proposal and get their support through the process.
You can find the relevant contact details in the fund guidelines below, as well as more information on the great work the KMCP do in their local area.
In 2021, OnPath Energy (at the time, Banks Renewables) received planning consent to extend the windfarm by 15 additional turbines. Full commissioning of Kype Extension was completed in early 2024.
One of our key aims at Kype Muir was to restore the surrounding peatland habitat that was destroyed or degraded by commercial forestry operations in previous decades. Peat bogs are one of nature’s climate heroes, they store twice as much carbon as all the world’s forests combined.
This wouldn’t have been possible without the support from OnPath Energy, and we are incredibly grateful to their team for their time and support with…
Joani Reid MP said: “I welcome the opportunity to open the Kype Muir Wind Farm Extension, it is another key building block towards a just…