Power plant · Stirling, Scotland, United Kingdom
Pirnhall Services, Bannockburn Interchange - Solar Panels
Pirnhall Services, Bannockburn Interchange - Solar Panels is a permitted power plant in Stirling, Scotland, United Kingdom, with 4 MW of capacity, operated by Moto Hospitality Limited.
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 | Stirling (coordinates), Scotland | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | Nw/O Pirnhall Services, Bannockburn Interchange, Stirling, FK7 8EU | 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 | 20 May 2025 (permit 24/00361/FUL, Town and Country Planning Act, issued by Stirling) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Application date | 29 May 2024 (reference 24/00361/FUL, planning authority Stirling) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Decision date | 20 May 2025 (granted, reference 24/00361/FUL, planning authority Stirling) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Moto Hospitality Limited (Moto Hospitality Limited (Head Office), applicant) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 4 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 | 3.32 ha (solar site area) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 56.0772, -3.9198 | 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 Stirling, reference 24/00361/FUL)
- Permit applied for (planning authority Stirling, reference 24/00361/FUL)
How it compares
Pirnhall Services, Bannockburn Interchange - Solar Panels is the 673rd-largest of 742 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in Scotland and the 2,134th-largest of 2,549 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 4 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 | 673rd of 742 | 93,216 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 2,134th of 2,549 | 279,978 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 5,282nd of 5,782 | 643,557 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 44 grid connections (18 operating, 212 MW), 33 substations and 12 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Patrickston Farm - PV + Battery grid connection | Grid connection | 15.9 MW | Planned | 13 km |
| Dunblane Primary | Substation | — | — | 13 km |
| Generating Station grid connection | Grid connection | 21.4 MW | Operating | 14 km |
| Kippen Primary | Substation | — | — | 16 km |
| Shelloch B Wind Farm grid connection | Grid connection | 25 MW | Planned | 16 km |
| Braco West GSP | Substation | — | — | 21 km |
| DataVita DV1 | Data center | — | — | 27 km |
| DataVita DV2 | Data center | — | — | 32 km |
| Verizon Glasgow GLSGGB | Data center | — | — | 33 km |
Operator and place
More from Moto Hospitality Limited
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- Moto Wetherby Motorway Service Area, Deighton Gates Roundabout - Solar Farm7 MW · permitted
- Motorway Service Area, Burghfield - Solar Farm5 MW · permitted
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- Seagreen1,075 MW
- Moray East950 MW
- Moray West Offshore Wind Farm Project882 MW
- Auchentiber Road - Battery Energy Storage System700 MW
- Lewis Wind Farm (Barvas Moor)652 MW
- Beatrice588 MW
- Braston New Energy500 MW
- Gretna Green Battery Storage456 MW
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.