Power plant · Scotland, United Kingdom
Brims Tidal Array (Cantick Head)
Brims Tidal Array (Cantick Head) is a planned power plant in Scotland, United Kingdom, with 200 MW of capacity, operated by DCNS OpenHydro and SSE Renewables.
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 | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | Pentland Firth, Off South Walls, Hoy, Orkney Islands, KW17 | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Status | Planned (planning application submitted) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Application date | 20 May 2016 (planning authority Marine Scotland) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | DCNS OpenHydro (DCNS OpenHydro/SSE Renewables, applicant) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | SSE Renewables (DCNS OpenHydro/SSE Renewables, applicant) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 200 MW | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Technology | Tidal Stream | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 58.7638, -3.2313 | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
Research on this power plant and its operator.Who owns it up to the parent company, its grid connection and planning status, and an introduction to the operator.
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- Permit applied for (planning authority Marine Scotland)
How it compares
Brims Tidal Array (Cantick Head) is the 76th-largest of 742 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in Scotland and the 270th-largest of 2,549 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 200 MW is <0.1% of the 279,978 MW of power plants planned, permitted or under construction we hold for the United Kingdom. It is not built yet, so it is ranked among the power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data, apart from the ones running today. Ranks and totals cover the ones that report their capacity.
| Within | Rank | Total | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scotland | 76th of 742 | 93,216 MW | 0.21% |
| United Kingdom | 270th of 2,549 | 279,978 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 732nd of 5,782 | 643,557 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 61 grid connections (30 operating, 303 MW) and 21 substations, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 6, up to 3 per kind.
| Name | Kind | Size | Status | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HOY Wind Farm grid connection | Grid connection | 66 MW | Planned | 7.7 km |
| Lyness Primary | Substation | — | — | 7.9 km |
| Orkney Community Wind Farm - HOY grid connection | Grid connection | 30 MW | Planned | 8.7 km |
| Flotta Primary | Substation | — | — | 9.8 km |
| Flotta Terminal grid connection | Grid connection | 9.5 MW | Operating | 10 km |
| Rackwick Primary | Substation | — | — | 16 km |
Operators and place
Other power plants in Scotland
- Longannet2,260 MW
- Torness1,200 MW
- Peterhead1,180 MW
- Seagreen1,075 MW
- Hunterston B985 MW
- Moray East950 MW
- Moray West Offshore Wind Farm Project882 MW
- Auchentiber Road - Battery Energy Storage System700 MW
Data on this page
- Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD), Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (Sep 2026). EIA-860 / 860M / 923, Public domain.
- Bundesnetzagentur, Marktstammdatenregister. Marktstammdatenregister, DL-DE-BY-2.0.
- Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects, Open Government Licence v3.0.
- RVO SDE(+)(+) projecten in beheer and SDE viewer. RVO SDE(+)(+) projecten in beheer and SDE viewer, Free reuse, no attribution required.
- SSEN Distribution. SSEN Distribution data portal, CC BY 4.0.