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Boulfruich is the only privately owned 'Large Scale' wind farm in the UK.
Generation
We are a privately held firm focused on the development of wind resources capable of supporting medium sized generating facilities. Our primary clients are the rancher, farmer or landowner seeking to preserve tracts of land for heritage use through the development of a wind resource.
Our Wind Technology.
Summit Wind Power performs initial site evaluations to determine the key elements of the site.
Currently the installed turbines
are generating at an efficiency rating in excess of 45%. It is a prime example of micro site analysis and design that allows for small to medium sized installations to produce at rates beneficlal to the landowner and the regional power grid.
Buolfruich Wind Farm Summary 
- Vestas turbines
- Current installation consists of 15 turbines
- 3 km from major substation connection
- 30-35 year lifespan
- 180 meter distance between turbines
- Local economic benefits in excess of $2.5 million dollars annually
All about us.
Summit Wind Power (SWP) is a wind farm developer and operator of medium sized wind farms. Our focus is in developing wind farm projects in the Intermountain West of the United States. The two principals of the company are Tony Hall and John Pochynok.
Tony currently owns and operates the Boulfruich Wind Farm near Caithness, Scotland. He took this project from its initial investigation phase to its current profitable operation and maintenance phase. It is the only privately held wind farm in the whole of Great Britain. John is an engineer with extensive project evaluation, development, and management and construction experience. His experience includes the development of cogeneration and geothermal alternative energy resources for private industry.
These include the wind
resource characterization, access, transmission paths, topography and climatic issues. The next step is full meteorological evaluation of the site if the initial evaluation justifies it. Our focus is to maximize the electrical production while minimizing the project footprint on the land. The third phase of our efforts is to do a full scale engineering development (FSED) evaluation that includes analyzing the data collected previously, creating a site design including transmission path trade offs, develop a technical and financial model, meeting with the land owner(s) to involve them in the process of siting decisions, creating environmental and project mitigation plans (avian, cultural, noise, historic, water, traffic as well as flora and fauna assessments), handling governmental, utility and agency relations.