News and Updates

The P5-7 pupils at Sir E Scott school are currently working on a project that looks at the pros and cons of wind generation. They have...

It’s March 2nd and we now have three completed Business Units. The Iomairt an Obain development in East Tarbert was finally handed over...

The North Harris Trust has been working for over 9 years to develop the site at Monan, above Ardhasaig. Whilst communities at Horshader,...

The Iomairt an Obain development in East Tarbert took another step forward last week. On Wednesday morning the timber-frame kits arrived...

While the sun shines in Harris, significant progress has been made building a new track up to the wind turbine sites. Blast! from North...

It’s getting on for 18 months since we last reported on this project. Things have been progressing slowly – but just not very visibly. We...

A new planning application has been lodged with CnES (ref 14/00226/PPD) to revise the route of the currently permitted access track. The...

Following the success of the North Harris Eagle Observatory, we have been looking at ideas for a development at Huisinis. The Trust owns...

Just when you’re really not getting anywhere with a project, another one comes along. Scottish Water has spent a fortune upgrading the...

This week saw the heavy machinery move off site on land above West Tarbert. In the spring, we secured planning permission for three...

In the toilet block, we have installed all the control gear for the two 5kW turbines. They have also started to fit lighting for the...

We now need to sort the ownership of the land out, and get the project costs firmed up. We hope to be able to tender for the build next...

Yesturday, West Coast Energee arrived to take down the turbine at the community recycling site. The machine is heading back to Ireland...

Our hydro scheme has been on hold for fast-approaching a year, whilst the UK government contemplates changes to the Feed-in-Tariff. The...

We are told that the Lewis and Harris electricity grid is full. There is no room for new generation. The interconnector will solve this...

A short video giving an update on progress this year. Hydro update Nov11 from North Harris Trust on Vimeo. #hebrides #harris #hydro...

An article reproduced from the Stornoway Gazette. #hebrides #WindTurbineprojects #harris #haris #northharris

So we just have to finalise the finance, and then we can start building !

#hebrides #WindTurbineprojects #harris #haris #scaladale #northharris

We have since been approached by a New Zealand-based company who specialise in smaller turbines ( 500kW rather than the original 950kW)....