Power plant · Aberdeen City, Scotland, United Kingdom
Farburn Place - Battery Energy Storage Facility
Farburn Place - Battery Energy Storage Facility is a power plant under construction in Aberdeen City, Scotland, United Kingdom, with 30 MW of capacity, operated by Centrica, Peak Reserve Power Limited and Cragside.
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 | Aberdeen City (coordinates), Scotland | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | Place Dyce, AB21 7GP | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Status | Under construction | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Permit date | 30 Sept 2021 (permit 210665/DPP, Town and Country Planning Act, issued by Aberdeen City) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Application date | 13 May 2021 (reference 210665/DPP, planning authority Aberdeen City) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Decision date | 30 Sept 2021 (granted, reference 210665/DPP, planning authority Aberdeen City) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Centrica (Peak Reserve Power Limited / Centrica / Cragside) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Peak Reserve Power Limited (Peak Reserve Power Limited / Centrica / Cragside) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Cragside (Peak Reserve Power Limited / Centrica / Cragside) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 30 MW | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Technology | Battery (stand-alone storage) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 57.2037, -2.1876 | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
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How it compares
Farburn Place - Battery Energy Storage Facility is the 501st-largest of 872 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in Scotland and the 1,569th-largest of 3,222 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 30 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 | 501st of 872 | 99,272 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 1,569th of 3,222 | 300,661 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 2,981st of 6,455 | 664,240 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 124 grid connections (56 operating, 419 MW), 77 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ABDN Farburn Terrace - Battery grid connection | Grid connection | 30 MW | Planned | 0.3 km |
| Dyce North Primary | Substation | — | — | 0.4 km |
| Battery storage 49.9 MW grid connection at Dyce Grid | Grid connection | 49.9 MW | Planned | 1.3 km |
| Dyce GSP | Substation | — | — | 1.3 km |
| Stoneywood (T3) Primary | Substation | — | — | 1.6 km |
| Generation 2.85 MW grid connection at AECC | Grid connection | 2.85 MW | Operating | 1.6 km |
| Brightsolid | Data center | — | — | 5.9 km |
Operators 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.
- © OpenStreetMap contributors. OpenStreetMap data centers, ODbL 1.0.
- Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects. Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects, Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Rare Context entity resolution. Rare Context entity resolution, CC0 1.0.
- 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.