Power plant · Aberdeenshire, Scotland, United Kingdom
Droop Hill, Glenbervie - Solar Park
Droop Hill, Glenbervie - Solar Park is a planned power plant in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, with 3.15 MW of capacity, operated by The Greenspan Agency.
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 | Adj Droop Hill, Glenbervie, Stonehaven, AB39 3YG | 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 | 30 May 2025 (ref. APP/2025/0560, Aberdeenshire) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | The Greenspan Agency | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 3.15 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 | 56.9180, -2.3818 | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
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How it compares
Droop Hill, Glenbervie - Solar Park is the 790th-largest of 872 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in Scotland and the 2,682nd-largest of 3,222 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 3.15 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 | 790th of 872 | 99,272 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 2,682nd of 3,222 | 300,661 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 5,845th of 6,455 | 664,240 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 101 grid connections (30 operating, 321 MW) and 75 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Macphie of Glenbervie Wind & Solar Park grid connection | Grid connection | 1.05 MW | Planned | 0.3 km |
| Macphies of Glenbervie Wind grid connection | Grid connection | 4.37 MW | Operating | 0.3 km |
| With CCM - DGEN grid connection | Grid connection | 52.6 MW | Planned | 1.7 km |
| Fiddes GSP | Substation | — | — | 4.9 km |
| Fetteresso GSP | Substation | — | — | 5.6 km |
| Inverbervie Primary | Substation | — | — | 9.9 km |
Operator and place
More from The Greenspan Agency
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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.
- 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.