Grid connection · Scotland, United Kingdom
Priestside Farm Wind Turbine grid connection
Priestside Farm Wind Turbine grid connection is a grid connection in Scotland, United Kingdom, with 1.8 MW of capacity, connected by SP Distribution plc (SP Energy Networks, South and Central Scotland licence area).
Facts
Every value links to its source, and to the source's own record where it has one. Licences and last-checked dates are per row.
| Fact | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Location | Scotland (connects at Port Glasgow (11kV)) | SP Energy Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Status | Operating (connected) | SP Energy Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Attached to | Port Glasgow (via a primary substation) | SP Energy Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Attached to | Priestside Farm (matched by name+coordinates+technology+capacity, 0.18 km away) | Rare Context entity resolution · CC0 1.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 1.8 MW | SP Energy Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Technology | Wind | SP Energy Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Grid operator | SP Distribution plc (SP Energy Networks, South and Central Scotland licence area) | SP Energy Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Connection date | 10 Sept 2015 | SP Energy Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Voltage | 11 kV | SP Energy Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 55.9144, -4.6772 | SP Energy Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
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Latest events
Dated events about this grid connection and the records linked to it from official notices, registers and owners' press releases, newest first. All recent changes.
- Permit refused: Priestside Farm (planning authority Inverclyde, reference 13/0036/IC)
- Permit applied for: Priestside Farm (planning authority Inverclyde, reference 13/0036/IC)
How it compares
Priestside Farm Wind Turbine grid connection is the 1,050th-largest of 1,158 grid connections in Scotland and the 4,304th-largest of 4,870 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 1.8 MW is <0.1% of the 467,981 MW we hold for the United Kingdom. Ranks and totals cover the grid connections in our data that report their capacity, not every one in existence.
| Within | Rank | Total | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scotland | 1,050th of 1,158 | 87,819 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 4,304th of 4,870 | 467,981 MW | <0.1% |
| All grid connections in our data | 8,039th of 8,618 | 1,355,288 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this grid connection: 289 power plants (79 operating, 1,645 MW), 207 substations and 5 data centers, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 9, up to 3 per kind.
| Name | Kind | Size | Status | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Priestside Farm | Power plant | 1.8 MW | Cancelled | 0.2 km |
| Auchentiber Road - Battery Energy Storage System | Power plant | 700 MW | Cancelled | 1.2 km |
| Port Glasgow | Substation | — | — | 1.4 km |
| Dougliehill Water Treatment Works, Dougliehill Road - Battery Storage | Power plant | 49 MW | Permitted | 1.8 km |
| Boundary Street | Substation | — | — | 3.2 km |
| Kilmacolm | Substation | — | — | 4.0 km |
| iomart Glasgow Data Centre | Data center | — | — | 26 km |
| Verizon Glasgow GLSGGB | Data center | — | — | 26 km |
| DataVita DV2 | Data center | — | — | 26 km |
Grid operator and place
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Data on this page
- California ISO. CAISO queue report, CAISO Privacy and Terms of Use.
- Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD), Open Government Licence v3.0.
- SP Electricity North West, via Northern Powergrid Open Data. SP Electricity North West open data portal, CC BY 4.0.
- ERCOT GIS report. ERCOT GIS report, ERCOT Terms of Use.
- Supported by National Energy SO Open Data. NESO TEC Register, NESO Open Data Licence v1.0.
- Supported by Northern Powergrid Open Data. Northern Powergrid open data portal, Northern Powergrid Open Data Licence v1.0.
- NYISO interconnection queue. NYISO interconnection queue, Free reuse.
- © OpenStreetMap contributors. OpenStreetMap data centers, ODbL 1.0.
- PJM New Services Queue. PJM New Services Queue, Free reuse.
- Rare Context entity resolution. Rare Context entity resolution, CC0 1.0.
- SP Energy Networks, via Northern Powergrid Open Data. SP Energy Networks open data portal, CC BY 4.0.
- SSEN Distribution. SSEN Distribution data portal, CC BY 4.0.
- UK Power Networks. UK Power Networks open data portal, CC BY 4.0.