Power plant · Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom

Penicuik, Moorfoot Hills - Torfichen Wind Farm

Penicuik, Moorfoot Hills - Torfichen Wind Farm is a planned power plant in Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom, with 50 MW of capacity, operated by RES Limited.

Facts

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Fact	Value	Source
Location	Midlothian (coordinates), Scotland	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Address	Sw/O Penicuik & Ne/O Stow, Moorfoot Hills, Gorebridge village, Edinburgh, EH23 4TR	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	28 Nov 2023 (reference ECU00004661, planning authority Scottish Government (S36))	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Operator	RES Limited	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Capacity	50 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	55.7795, -3.0543	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026

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How it compares

Penicuik, Moorfoot Hills - Torfichen Wind Farm is the 285th-largest of 872 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in Scotland and the 755th-largest of 3,222 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 50 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	285th of 872	99,272 MW	<0.1%
United Kingdom	755th of 3,222	300,661 MW	<0.1%
All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data	1,832nd 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	—	—	13 km
Data center, Scotland (OSM way 1548060501)	Data center	—	—	20 km
RBS Data Centre	Data center	—	—	21 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.