Power plant · Aberdeenshire, Scotland, United Kingdom
Brownside Farm - Electricity Production Facility & Battery Storage
Brownside Farm - Electricity Production Facility & Battery Storage is a permitted power plant in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, with 35 MW of capacity, operated by Aberdeenshire Council.
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 | Aberdeenshire (coordinates), Scotland | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | Brownside Farm, Banff, AB45 3YD | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Status | Permitted (planning permission granted) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Permit date | 18 Jun 2025 (permit ENQ/2024/1328, Town and Country Planning Act, issued by Aberdeenshire) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Application date | 4 Sept 2024 (reference ENQ/2024/1328, planning authority Aberdeenshire) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Decision date | 18 Jun 2025 (granted, reference ENQ/2024/1328, planning authority Aberdeenshire) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Aberdeenshire Council | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 35 MW | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Technology | Solar Photovoltaics | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 57.5800, -2.5499 | 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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Brownside Farm - Electricity Production Facility & Battery Storage is the 484th-largest of 872 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in Scotland and the 1,489th-largest of 3,222 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 35 MW is <0.1% of the 300,661 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 | 484th of 872 | 99,272 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 1,489th of 3,222 | 300,661 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 2,772nd of 6,455 | 664,240 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 128 grid connections (57 operating, 384 MW) and 61 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brownside Farm grid connection | Grid connection | 35.2 MW | Planned | 0.3 km |
| Solar 35.2 MW grid connection at Macduff Grid | Grid connection | 35.2 MW | Planned | 0.3 km |
| Wind 4.465 MW grid connection at Keith Grid | Grid connection | 4.47 MW | Operating | 3.7 km |
| Marnoch Primary | Substation | — | — | 5.5 km |
| Turriff Primary | Substation | — | — | 6.7 km |
| Macduff GSP | Substation | — | — | 9.8 km |
Operator and place
Grid connections attached to this power plant
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Data on this page
- DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD). 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.
- Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects. Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects, Open Government Licence v3.0.
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- RVO SDE(+)(+) projecten in beheer and SDE viewer. RVO SDE(+)(+) projecten in beheer and SDE viewer, Free reuse, no attribution required.
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