Later start for 457MW Viking wind farm

Viking will join Burradale's handful of existing turbines on Shetland

Viking Energy has delayed the timescale of its controversial wind farm on Scotland’s Shetland by nearly a year and cut by 13% the estimated income that will be generated for the local community.

In its first official statement since winning consent for a revised version of the wind farm last April, Viking Energy says it does not expect the project to be completed until November 2018, with construction slated to start in early 2016.

Previously, the project had been due for completion in December 2017.

In the short term, that means that detailed ground investigations will not commence until next year at the earliest, as the project’s entire work programme is rescheduled.

The delay is chiefly the fault of Scottish Hydro Electric Transmission, owned by the utility SSE, which is responsible for building a 600MW…

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