Welcome to Lynemore Wind Farm
The purpose of this website is to provide easy access to the latest information on Lynemore Wind Farm, as well as how you can get involved and share your views.
Galileo is proposing a development of up to 10 wind turbines and energy storage, located on land at Lynemore, situated approximately 2km Southwest of the A9 at Moy.
At Galileo, we are committed to working with the local community and other key stakeholders to responsibly develop renewable energy projects that help to deliver Scottish climate change targets and ensure a green and sustainable future for generations to come.
The Lynemore Wind Farm development will make a significant contribution to the decarbonisation of our electricity system, supporting a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, as well as delivering major community benefits. These include the potential for reductions in electricity bills.
Tackling the Climate Emergency
“Right now, we are facing a man-made disaster of global scale. Our greatest threat in thousands of years, climate change.” 1
Sir David Attenborough
The proposal for Lynemore Wind Farm is set against the backdrop of the climate emergency and the need to transition to renewable energy sources, reducing greenhouse gas emissions from polluting fossil fuels.
It is no understatement to say that man-made climate change is the defining crisis of our time, and it is happening even more quickly than we feared, with major global impacts.
Lynemore Wind Farm will play its part in tackling the overall challenge and supporting the delivery of the Scottish Government’s ambitious legally-binding target of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2045. It could power the equivalent of around 62,468 homes annually with clean, low-cost renewable electricity.(1)
Replacing polluting fossil fuels, the dominant cause of global warming, the wind farm could save around 85,790 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions annually (2), supporting our transition to a low-carbon future. This is the equivalent of taking around 50,993 cars off the road.(3)
Recent events, such as the war in Ukraine, have also focused people’s minds on the risks of over reliance on imported fossil fuels, with the rising cost of gas driving the huge increase in energy bills, a key cause of the cost-of-living crisis.
Onshore wind is one of the cheapest sources of new-build electricity generation in the UK, and therefore has a key role to play in addressing this crisis.
The growth of secure homegrown renewable energy can also help to insulate Scotland and the rest of the UK from future price shocks, and play a key role in decarbonising heat, power and transport.
