Power plant · Renfrewshire, Scotland, United Kingdom
Middleton Farm Cottage, Middleton Road - Solar Photovoltaic Array
Middleton Farm Cottage, Middleton Road - Solar Photovoltaic Array is a permitted power plant in Renfrewshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, with 40 MW of capacity, operated by Bluestone Energy.
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 | Renfrewshire (coordinates), Scotland | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | Middleton Farm Cottage, Middleton Road, Linwood, Paisley, PA3 3AG | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Status | Permitted (planning permission granted) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Permit date | 3 Sept 2025 (permit 25/0232/PP, Town and Country Planning Act, issued by Renfrewshire) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Application date | 31 Mar 2025 (reference 25/0232/PP, planning authority Renfrewshire) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Decision date | 3 Sept 2025 (granted, reference 25/0232/PP, planning authority Renfrewshire) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Bluestone Energy (applicant) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 40 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 | 61.8 ha (solar site area) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 55.8560, -4.4738 | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
Research on this power plant and its operator.Who owns it up to the parent company, its grid connection and planning status, and an introduction to the operator.
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- Permit granted (planning authority Renfrewshire, reference 25/0232/PP)
- Permit applied for (planning authority Renfrewshire, reference 25/0232/PP)
How it compares
Middleton Farm Cottage, Middleton Road - Solar Photovoltaic Array is the 400th-largest of 742 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in Scotland and the 1,136th-largest of 2,549 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 40 MW is <0.1% of the 279,978 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 | 400th of 742 | 93,216 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 1,136th of 2,549 | 279,978 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 2,350th of 5,782 | 643,557 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 22 substations, 16 grid connections (9 operating, 223 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| iomart Glasgow Data Centre | Data center | — | — | 12 km |
| Verizon Glasgow GLSGGB | Data center | — | — | 13 km |
| Strathleven GSP | Substation | — | — | 13 km |
| DataVita DV2 | Data center | — | — | 13 km |
| Auchencarroch Energy Ltd grid connection | Grid connection | 3.04 MW | Operating | 16 km |
| Auchincarroch (GEN464G2) grid connection | Grid connection | 1.01 MW | Operating | 16 km |
| Blairlinnans Primary | Substation | — | — | 20 km |
| Killearn Primary | Substation | — | — | 22 km |
| Ross Priory Hydro grid connection | Grid connection | 4 MW | Planned | 22 km |
Operator and place
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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.
- Bundesnetzagentur, Marktstammdatenregister. Marktstammdatenregister, DL-DE-BY-2.0.
- © OpenStreetMap contributors. OpenStreetMap data centers, ODbL 1.0.
- 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.
- SSEN Distribution. SSEN Distribution data portal, CC BY 4.0.