Power plant · North Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom

Greengairs East Wind Farm

Greengairs East Wind Farm is a wind power plant in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, with 24 MW of capacity, operated by Muirhall Energy.

Facts

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Fact	Value	Source
Location	North Lanarkshire (coordinates), Scotland	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Address	N/o Easterton, Airdrie Road Caldercruix, Airdrie, Lanarkshire, ML6, ML6 7TP	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Status	Operating (operational)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Start year	2023	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
Permit date	13 Feb 2019 (permit 12/00602/FUL, Town and Country Planning Act, issued by North Lanarkshire)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Application date	29 Jun 2012 (reference 12/00602/FUL, planning authority North Lanarkshire)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Decision date	13 Feb 2019 (granted, reference 12/00602/FUL, planning authority North Lanarkshire)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Operator	Muirhall Energy	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Capacity	24 MW	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Units	8 units (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	55.9025, -3.9093	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026

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Latest events

Dated events about this power plant from official notices and registers, newest first. All recent changes.

25 Aug 2023Commissioned
13 Feb 2019Permit granted (planning authority North Lanarkshire, reference 12/00602/FUL)
29 Jun 2012Permit applied for (planning authority North Lanarkshire, reference 12/00602/FUL)

How it compares

Greengairs East Wind Farm is the 440th-largest of 1,340 power plants in Scotland and the 1,322nd-largest of 5,834 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 24 MW is <0.1% of the 200,500 MW we hold for the United Kingdom. Ranks and totals cover the power plants in our data that report their capacity, not every one in existence. Power plants planned, permitted or under construction are ranked apart.

Within	Rank	Total	Share
Scotland	440th of 1,340	46,467 MW	<0.1%
United Kingdom	1,322nd of 5,834	200,500 MW	<0.1%
All power plants in our data	6,013th of 15,800	1,923,633 MW	<0.1%

Timeline

Dated facts about this power plant from its sources, oldest first.

2023Started operating

Nearby

Within 50 km of this power plant: 17 grid connections (7 operating, 47 MW), 14 substations and 12 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
DataVita DV1	Data center	—	—	8.0 km
Asanti Hamilton	Data center	—	—	18 km
Generating Station grid connection	Grid connection	21.4 MW	Operating	22 km
DataVita DV2	Data center	—	—	23 km
Shelloch B Wind Farm grid connection	Grid connection	25 MW	Planned	28 km
Patrickston Farm - PV + Battery grid connection	Grid connection	15.9 MW	Planned	28 km
Kippen Primary	Substation	—	—	30 km
Dunblane Primary	Substation	—	—	32 km
Killearn Primary	Substation	—	—	34 km

Operator and place

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Data on this page

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. DUKES 5.11: Power stations in the United Kingdom, Open Government Licence v3.0.
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.
JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN), European Commission, Joint Research Centre. JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN), CC BY 4.0.
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