Power plant · Inverclyde, Scotland, United Kingdom
Knockair, Dougliehill Road - Battery Storage Facility
Knockair, Dougliehill Road - Battery Storage Facility is a planned power plant in Inverclyde, Scotland, United Kingdom, with 24 MW of capacity, operated by Renewco Power.
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 | Inverclyde (coordinates), Scotland | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | Former Dougliehill Water Treatment Works, Dougliehill Road, Port Glasgow, PA14 5AY | 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 | 20 Aug 2025 (reference 25/0125/IC, planning authority Inverclyde) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Renewco Power | 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 |
| Technology | Battery (co-located with re) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 55.9342, -4.7030 | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
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How it compares
Knockair, Dougliehill Road - Battery Storage Facility is the 559th-largest of 872 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in Scotland and the 1,800th-largest of 3,222 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 24 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 | 559th of 872 | 99,272 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 1,800th of 3,222 | 300,661 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 3,456th of 6,455 | 664,240 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 39 substations, 24 grid connections (15 operating, 255 MW) and 5 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Strathleven GSP | Substation | — | — | 9.3 km |
| Dumfin 11kV Network | Substation | — | — | 10 km |
| Auchencarroch Energy Ltd grid connection | Grid connection | 3.04 MW | Operating | 11 km |
| Auchincarroch (GEN464G2) grid connection | Grid connection | 1.01 MW | Operating | 11 km |
| Blairlinnans Primary | Substation | — | — | 14 km |
| 45MW Battery grid connection | Grid connection | 52.7 MW | Planned | 16 km |
| iomart Glasgow Data Centre | Data center | — | — | 28 km |
| Verizon Glasgow GLSGGB | Data center | — | — | 28 km |
| DataVita DV2 | Data center | — | — | 28 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.