Power plant · Scottish Borders, Scotland, United Kingdom

Leithenwater Wind Energy Hub - Wind Farm

Leithenwater Wind Energy Hub - Wind Farm is a planned power plant in Scottish Borders, Scotland, United Kingdom, with 85.8 MW of capacity, operated by Belltown Power Limited.

Facts

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Fact	Value	Source
Location	Scottish Borders (coordinates), Scotland	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Address	Leithenwater Wind Energy Hub, 4.5km NE/O Peebles, Peebles, BS1	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
Onshore or offshore	Onshore	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Application date	4 Apr 2024 (reference ECU00004619, planning authority Scottish Government (S36))	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Operator	Belltown Power Limited	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Capacity	85.8 MW	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Units	13 units (6.6 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	55.6534, -3.1846	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026

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How it compares

Leithenwater Wind Energy Hub - Wind Farm is the 185th-largest of 872 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in Scotland and the 568th-largest of 3,222 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 85.8 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	185th of 872	99,272 MW	<0.1%
United Kingdom	568th of 3,222	300,661 MW	<0.1%
All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data	1,498th of 6,455	664,240 MW	<0.1%

Nearby

Within 50 km of this power plant: 9 data centers, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 3.

Name	Kind	Size	Status	Distance
RBS Melville Gate Data Centre	Data center	—	—	27 km
Data center, Scotland (OSM way 1548060501)	Data center	—	—	30 km
Sungard Availability Services	Data center	—	—	31 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.
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.