Power plant · Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, United Kingdom
Hopsrig Wind Farm
Hopsrig Wind Farm is a planned battery storage plant in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, United Kingdom, with 14.1 MW of capacity, operated by Muirhall Energy.
Facts
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| Fact | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Location | Dumfries and Galloway (coordinates), Scotland | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | west of the B709, approximately 7.5 km north-west of Langholm and 15 km north-east of Lockerbie, DG13 | 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 |
| Application date | 23 Oct 2020 (reference ECU00002160, planning authority Scottish Government (S36)) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Muirhall Energy (applicant) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 14.1 MW | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Technology | Battery (co-located with re) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 55.1871, -3.1241 | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
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- Permit applied for (planning authority Scottish Government (S36), reference ECU00002160)
How it compares
Hopsrig Wind Farm is the 582nd-largest of 742 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in Scotland and the 1,791st-largest of 2,548 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 14.1 MW is <0.1% of the 279,068 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 | 582nd of 742 | 93,216 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 1,791st of 2,548 | 279,068 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 4,246th of 5,799 | 657,076 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 40 grid connections (20 operating, 139 MW), 21 substations and 1 transmission line, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 7, up to 3 per kind.
| Name | Kind | Size | Status | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beck Burn Wind Farm grid connection | Grid connection | 31.1 MW | Operating | 21 km |
| Cross Border Connection (England) | Transmission line | — | Planned | 22 km |
| Easton | Substation | — | — | 22 km |
| Burnfoot Farm grid connection | Grid connection | 45 MW | Planned | 24 km |
| Hallburn Farm grid connection | Grid connection | 13.2 MW | Operating | 24 km |
| Kinkry Hill | Substation | — | — | 26 km |
| Westlinton | Substation | — | — | 26 km |
Operator and place
More from Muirhall Energy
- Teviot Wind Farm350 MW · planned
- Glen Ullinish II - Wind Farm310 MW · planned
- Glen Ullinish II - Wind Farm120 MW · planned
- Teviot Wind Farm100 MW · planned
- Hopsrig Wind Farm79.2 MW · planned
- Caplich Wind Farm68 MW
- Loganhead Wind Farm53.8 MW · planned
- Glen Ullinish Wind Farm49.9 MW · permitted
Other power plants in Scotland
- Longannet2,260 MW
- Torness1,200 MW
- Peterhead1,180 MW
- Seagreen1,075 MW
- Hunterston B985 MW
- Moray East950 MW
- Moray West Offshore Wind Farm Project882 MW
- Auchentiber Road - Battery Energy Storage System700 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.
- SP Electricity North West, via Northern Powergrid Open Data. SP Electricity North West open data portal, CC BY 4.0.
- Bundesnetzagentur, Marktstammdatenregister. Marktstammdatenregister, DL-DE-BY-2.0.
- 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.
- Wikidata. Wikidata, CC0 1.0.