Power plant · East Renfrewshire, Scotland, United Kingdom

Neilston Wind Farm

Neilston Wind Farm is a power plant in East Renfrewshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, with 9.2 MW of capacity, operated by The Renewables Infrastructure Group.

Facts

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Fact	Value	Source
Name in the source	NEILSTON WIND FARM	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Location	East Renfrewshire (coordinates), Scotland	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Address	N/w Of Nether Carswell Farm, Drumgrain Tip, Kingston Road, Neilston, Glasgow, Strathclyde, G44	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Status	Operating (operational)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Start year	2013	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
Permit date	16 May 2011 (permit 2009/0744/TP, Town and Country Planning Act, issued by East Renfrewshire)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Application date	19 Nov 2009 (reference 2009/0744/TP, planning authority East Renfrewshire)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Decision date	16 May 2011 (granted, reference 2009/0744/TP, planning authority East Renfrewshire)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Operator	The Renewables Infrastructure Group	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Capacity	9.2 MW	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Units	4 units (2.3 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	55.7555, -4.4642	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026

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Latest events

Dated events about this power plant from official notices and registers, newest first. All recent changes.

13 May 2013Commissioned
16 May 2011Permit granted (planning authority East Renfrewshire, reference 2009/0744/TP)
19 Nov 2009Permit applied for (planning authority East Renfrewshire, reference 2009/0744/TP)

How it compares

Neilston Wind Farm is the 637th-largest of 1,196 power plants in Scotland and the 2,023rd-largest of 5,050 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 9.2 MW is <0.1% of the 115,622 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	637th of 1,196	34,589 MW	<0.1%
United Kingdom	2,023rd of 5,050	115,622 MW	<0.1%
All power plants in our data	7,404th of 12,032	1,190,447 MW	<0.1%

Timeline

Dated facts about this power plant from its sources, oldest first.

2013Started operating

Nearby

Within 50 km of this power plant: 17 substations, 13 grid connections (7 operating, 61.9 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	—	—	16 km
Verizon Glasgow GLSGGB	Data center	—	—	17 km
DataVita DV2	Data center	—	—	17 km
Strathleven GSP	Substation	—	—	24 km
Auchencarroch Energy Ltd grid connection	Grid connection	3.04 MW	Operating	27 km
Auchincarroch (GEN464G2) grid connection	Grid connection	1.01 MW	Operating	27 km
Ballochmartin Farm grid connection	Grid connection	3.5 MW	Planned	28 km
Blairlinnans Primary	Substation	—	—	31 km
Dumfin 11kV Network	Substation	—	—	33 km

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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.
JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN), European Commission, Joint Research Centre. JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN), CC BY 4.0.
Bundesnetzagentur, Marktstammdatenregister. Marktstammdatenregister, DL-DE-BY-2.0.
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.