Power plant · Shetland Islands, Scotland, United Kingdom

Lerwick Power Station

Lerwick Power Station is a power plant in Shetland Islands, Scotland, United Kingdom, with 67 MW of capacity, owned by SSE Group.

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	Shetland Islands (coordinates), Scotland	DUKES 5.11: Power stations in the United Kingdom · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Status	Operating	DUKES 5.11: Power stations in the United Kingdom · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Start year	1953	DUKES 5.11: Power stations in the United Kingdom · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Owner	SSE Group (company that returns the dukes survey, usually the owner)	DUKES 5.11: Power stations in the United Kingdom · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Capacity	67 MW	DUKES 5.11: Power stations in the United Kingdom · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Technology	Diesel/gas oil (open cycle)	DUKES 5.11: Power stations in the United Kingdom · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Coordinates	60.1692, -1.1609	DUKES 5.11: Power stations in the United Kingdom · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026

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How it compares

Lerwick is the 117th-largest of 1,340 power plants in Scotland and the 363rd-largest of 5,834 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 67 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	117th of 1,340	46,467 MW	0.14%
United Kingdom	363rd of 5,834	200,500 MW	<0.1%
All power plants in our data	3,102nd of 15,799	1,918,113 MW	<0.1%

Nearby

Within 50 km of this power plant: 24 grid connections (17 operating, 81.1 MW) and 10 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
Lerwick P S (G5) grid connection	Grid connection	4.28 MW	Operating	0.3 km
Lerwick PS (G11) grid connection	Grid connection	4.28 MW	Operating	0.3 km
Lerwick PS (G1DATA NOT Available) grid connection	Grid connection	4.28 MW	Operating	0.3 km
Shetland / Gremista	Substation	—	—	0.4 km
Lerwick Primary	Substation	—	—	0.5 km
Scalloway Primary	Substation	—	—	6.3 km

Owner and place

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Data on this page

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Dutch power station owners' and operators' pages. Dutch power station owners' and operators' pages, Facts only, each linked to its page.
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.
SSEN Distribution. SSEN Distribution data portal, CC BY 4.0.
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