Power plant · Aberdeenshire, Scotland, United Kingdom
Hillhead Of Gask, Longhaven - Solar Array
Hillhead Of Gask, Longhaven - Solar Array is a power plant under construction in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, with 14.2 MW of capacity, operated by The Greenspan Agency.
Facts
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| Fact | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Location | Aberdeenshire (coordinates), Scotland | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | Hillhead Of Gask Longhaven Peterhead, AB42 0PT | 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 | 8 Apr 2022 (permit APP/2021/2467, Town and Country Planning Act, issued by Aberdeenshire) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Application date | 14 Jan 2022 (ref. APP/2021/2467, Aberdeenshire) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Decision date | 8 Apr 2022 (granted, ref. APP/2021/2467, Aberdeenshire) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | The Greenspan Agency | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 14.2 MW | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Technology | Solar Photovoltaics | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Area | 19.1 ha (solar site area) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 57.4646, -1.8525 | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
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How it compares
Hillhead Of Gask, Longhaven - Solar Array is the 659th-largest of 872 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in Scotland and the 2,152nd-largest of 3,222 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 14.2 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 | 659th of 872 | 99,272 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 2,152nd of 3,222 | 300,661 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 4,589th of 6,455 | 664,240 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 103 grid connections (45 operating, 262 MW) and 64 substations, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 6, up to 3 per kind.
| Name | Kind | Size | Status | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wells Forest Farm 25MW grid connection | Grid connection | 50.2 MW | Planned | 0.9 km |
| Stoneyhill Landfill grid connection | Grid connection | 1.94 MW | Operating | 0.9 km |
| Hillhead of Gask PV and BESS grid connection | Grid connection | 14.2 MW | Planned | 0.9 km |
| Stoneyhill Primary | Substation | — | — | 1.3 km |
| Peterhead Shell GSP | Substation | — | — | 3.3 km |
| Boddam Primary | Substation | — | — | 3.4 km |
Operator 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.
- 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.