Power plant · Aberdeenshire, Scotland, United Kingdom
Cairndailly Farm - Wind turbine
Cairndailly Farm - Wind turbine is a planned wind power plant in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, with 3 MW of capacity, operated by JKR Contractors Ltd, Formartine Partnership and DC Smith Skelmonae Wind Farm Limited.
Facts
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| Fact | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Location | Aberdeenshire (coordinates), Scotland | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | Cairnadailly Farm, Ellon, AB41 | 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 |
| Onshore or offshore | Onshore | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Application date | 11 Jan 2024 (reference APP/2023/2303, planning authority Aberdeenshire) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | JKR Contractors Ltd (DC Smith Skelmonae Wind Farm Limited / Formartine Partnership / JKR Contractors Ltd, applicant) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Formartine Partnership (DC Smith Skelmonae Wind Farm Limited / Formartine Partnership / JKR Contractors Ltd, applicant) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | DC Smith Skelmonae Wind Farm Limited (DC Smith Skelmonae Wind Farm Limited / Formartine Partnership / JKR Contractors Ltd, applicant) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 3 MW | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Units | 1 units (3 MW per unit) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Technology | Wind Onshore | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 57.3656, -2.0704 | 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 Aberdeenshire, reference APP/2023/2303)
How it compares
Cairndailly Farm - Wind turbine is the 688th-largest of 742 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in Scotland and the 2,184th-largest of 2,548 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 3 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 | 688th of 742 | 93,216 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 2,184th of 2,548 | 279,068 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 5,368th of 5,799 | 657,076 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 124 grid connections (56 operating, 351 MW), 76 substations and 1 data center, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 7, up to 3 per kind.
| Name | Kind | Size | Status | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ellon Primary | Substation | — | — | 0.6 km |
| Upper Ardgrain Windfarm grid connection | Grid connection | 2.28 MW | Operating | 3.6 km |
| Hill of Fiddes Windfarm grid connection | Grid connection | 7.13 MW | Operating | 6.9 km |
| Udny Community grid connection | Grid connection | 1.07 MW | Operating | 8.6 km |
| Balmedie Primary | Substation | — | — | 12 km |
| Methlick Primary | Substation | — | — | 12 km |
| Brightsolid | Data center | — | — | 24 km |
Operators 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.
- © OpenStreetMap contributors. OpenStreetMap data centers, ODbL 1.0.
- 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.
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