Power plant · Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom
Gleniston, Auchtertool - Battery Storage Facility
Gleniston, Auchtertool - Battery Storage Facility is a permitted power plant in Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom, with 49.5 MW of capacity, operated by Harmony Energy Limited.
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 | Fife (coordinates), Scotland | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | Battery Storage Facility Gleniston Auchtertool, KY5 0AX | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Status | Permitted (planning permission granted) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Permit date | 1 Nov 2022 (permit 22/02323/FULL, Town and Country Planning Act, issued by Fife) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Application date | 12 Jul 2022 (reference 22/02323/FULL, planning authority Fife) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Decision date | 1 Nov 2022 (granted, reference 22/02323/FULL, planning authority Fife) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Harmony Energy Limited | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 49.5 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 | 56.1120, -3.2679 | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
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Gleniston, Auchtertool - Battery Storage Facility is the 401st-largest of 872 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in Scotland and the 1,224th-largest of 3,222 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 49.5 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 | 401st of 872 | 99,272 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 1,224th of 3,222 | 300,661 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 2,306th of 6,455 | 664,240 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 62 grid connections (19 operating, 355 MW), 47 substations and 9 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Milnathort Primary | Substation | — | — | 16 km |
| Binn Farm Glenfarg grid connection | Grid connection | 30 MW | Planned | 19 km |
| Pulsant Edinburgh SC-1 | Data center | — | — | 20 km |
| Pulsant Edinburgh South Gyle SC-1 | Data center | — | — | 20 km |
| Lloyds Banking Group data center, Scotland | Data center | — | — | 20 km |
| Shire End 20MW PV grid connection | Grid connection | 20 MW | Planned | 21 km |
| Fragland grid connection | Grid connection | 120 MW | Planned | 21 km |
| Glendevon Primary | Substation | — | — | 24 km |
| Abernethy GSP | Substation | — | — | 25 km |
Operator and place
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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.
- 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.