From ambition to action

Once complete in 2024, Viking will be the UK’s largest onshore wind farm in terms of annual electricity output^, playing a crucial role in contributing towards the UK and Scotland’s net zero targets.

This 103 turbine, 443 MW wind farm will be capable of generating enough wind powered electricity to power around 500,000 homes* including every home in the Sheland Islands.

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0.5M
Tonnes of CO2 emmisions reduced per year
443MW
Installed capacity

Supporting the Shetland community

The Viking wind farm is owned by Scottish headquartered SSE Renewables – dedicated to delivering green energy for Scotland’s transition to net zero.

The Shetland community is represented on the management board and Viking is committed to supporting the community through a £2.2 million annual benefit fund.

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£2.2m annually
in community benefit

Latest News

Newsletters
12th January 2024

Welcome to your December 2023 newsletter, packed full of the latest project information. Click here to download

Newsletters
30th October 2023

Welcome to your September 2023 newsletter, packed full of the latest project information. Click here to download

Construction
18th August 2023

SSE Renewables is celebrating the successful installation of the final turbine in the northeast sector of Viking, which will be the UK’s most productive onshore wind farm once complete in 2024.

Community
14th August 2023

‘The Big Hop Trail’ … Viking Wind Farm and SSE Renewables are proud to be a sponsor of the Clan Cancer Support’s ‘The Big Hop Trail’ event which coincides with the organisations 40th Anniversary.

High-quality jobs

As well as generating significant amounts of clean wind powered electricity, Viking is supporting dozens of high-quality jobs in Shetland.

Hundreds of workers have been involved in the construction of Viking and, once operational, Viking will sustain a skilled workforce in Shetland.

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Notes:

* 475,099 homes powered per annum based on annual GB average domestic household consumption base of 3.781MWh published by the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) as of November 2018, and projected total generation output by Viking Wind Farm of 1,796.35 GWh per annum. Equivalent every home in Shetland claim based on 10,235 recorded households in Shetland, published in Shetland in Statistics 2017 by Shetland Islands Council, 2018.

^ Most productive UK onshore wind farm claim based on projected total generation output by Viking Wind Farm of 1,796.35 GWh per annum and a comparison with the leading UK operational and in construction wind farms.