North Uist will get its community-owned wind farm next year, after the fundraising campaign passed £400,000 on Christmas Eve.
The total raised by UistWind – a project driven by the North Uist Development Company (Trading) – was £408,000 by close of play on December 24.
The project is for two 900kW turbines at Criongrabhal, near Clachan-na-Luib, which will cost around £3.5million to build. Commercial loans are covering most of it, but the community needed to raise a minimum of £350,000 as its equity stake in the project.