Power plant · Aberdeenshire, Scotland, United Kingdom
Brownside Farm - Electricity Production Facility & Battery Storage
Brownside Farm - Electricity Production Facility & Battery Storage is a permitted battery storage plant in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, with 14.9 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 (applicant) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 14.9 MW | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Technology | Battery (co-located with re) | 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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Dated events about this power plant from official notices and registers, newest first. All recent changes.
- Permit granted (planning authority Aberdeenshire, reference ENQ/2024/1328)
- Permit applied for (planning authority Aberdeenshire, reference ENQ/2024/1328)
How it compares
Brownside Farm - Electricity Production Facility & Battery Storage is the 578th-largest of 742 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in Scotland and the 1,783rd-largest of 2,548 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 14.9 MW is <0.1% of the 279,068 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 | 578th of 742 | 93,216 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 1,783rd of 2,548 | 279,068 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 4,149th of 5,799 | 657,076 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
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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.
- Wikidata. Wikidata, CC0 1.0.