Power plant · North Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom
Dunlop Place, Meadowhead Industrial Estate - Wind turbine
Dunlop Place, Meadowhead Industrial Estate - Wind turbine is a planned power plant in North Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, with 7 MW of capacity, operated by Farm Energy.
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 | North Ayrshire (coordinates), Scotland | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | N/O 1 Dunlop Place, Meadowhead Industrial Estate, Irvine, KA11 5AU | 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 | 28 Jul 2025 (reference 25/00334/PP, planning authority North Ayrshire) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Farm Energy (applicant) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 7 MW | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Units | 1 units (7 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 | 55.5876, -4.6437 | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
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- Permit applied for (planning authority North Ayrshire, reference 25/00334/PP)
How it compares
Dunlop Place, Meadowhead Industrial Estate - Wind turbine is the 638th-largest of 742 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in Scotland and the 1,983rd-largest of 2,549 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 7 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 | 638th of 742 | 93,216 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 1,983rd of 2,549 | 279,978 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 5,095th of 5,782 | 643,557 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 14 substations, 5 grid connections (2 operating, 4.05 MW) and 4 data centers, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 9, up to 3 per kind.
| Name | Kind | Size | Status | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ballochmartin Farm grid connection | Grid connection | 3.5 MW | Planned | 26 km |
| Bruchag Primary | Substation | — | — | 31 km |
| Whiting Bay Primary | Substation | — | — | 31 km |
| Brodick Primary | Substation | — | — | 31 km |
| Glenkiln Farm grid connection | Grid connection | 4 MW | Planned | 32 km |
| iomart Glasgow Data Centre | Data center | — | — | 37 km |
| Verizon Glasgow GLSGGB | Data center | — | — | 38 km |
| DataVita DV2 | Data center | — | — | 39 km |
| Auchencarroch Energy Ltd grid connection | Grid connection | 3.04 MW | Operating | 45 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.
- © 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.