Power plant · North Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom
Forrestfield Wind Farm
Forrestfield Wind Farm is a planned power plant in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, with 13.2 MW of capacity, operated by West Cost 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 Lanarkshire (coordinates), Scotland | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | Site South Of, Airdrie Road, Caldercruix, Airdrie, Strathclyde, ML6 8NX | 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 | 2 Jul 2015 (reference 15/01411/FUL, planning authority North Lanarkshire) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | West Cost Energy (applicant) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 13.2 MW | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Units | 4 units (3.3 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 | 55.8783, -3.8154 | 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 Lanarkshire, reference 15/01411/FUL)
How it compares
Forrestfield Wind Farm is the 584th-largest of 742 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in Scotland and the 1,803rd-largest of 2,549 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 13.2 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 | 584th of 742 | 93,216 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 1,803rd of 2,549 | 279,978 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 4,463rd of 5,782 | 643,557 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 16 grid connections (6 operating, 45.5 MW), 13 data centers and 13 substations, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 9, up to 3 per kind.
| Name | Kind | Size | Status | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DataVita DV1 | Data center | — | — | 9.8 km |
| Sungard Availability Services | Data center | — | — | 21 km |
| Asanti Hamilton | Data center | — | — | 21 km |
| Generating Station grid connection | Grid connection | 21.4 MW | Operating | 28 km |
| Patrickston Farm - PV + Battery grid connection | Grid connection | 15.9 MW | Planned | 34 km |
| Shelloch B Wind Farm grid connection | Grid connection | 25 MW | Planned | 34 km |
| Kippen Primary | Substation | — | — | 35 km |
| Dunblane Primary | Substation | — | — | 36 km |
| Glendevon Primary | Substation | — | — | 39 km |
Operator and place
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- Beatrice588 MW
- Braston New Energy500 MW
- Gretna Green Battery Storage456 MW
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.