Power plant · Inverclyde, Scotland, United Kingdom
Priestside Farm
Priestside Farm is a cancelled wind power plant in Inverclyde, Scotland, United Kingdom, with 1.8 MW of capacity.
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 | Inverclyde (coordinates), Scotland | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Status | Cancelled (planning permission refused) | 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 |
| Application date | 4 Feb 2013 (reference 13/0036/IC, planning authority Inverclyde) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Decision date | 23 Apr 2013 (refused, reference 13/0036/IC, planning authority Inverclyde) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 1.8 MW | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Units | 2 units (0.9 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 | 55.9156, -4.6751 | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
Research on this power plant and its owner.Who owns it up to the parent company, its grid connection and planning status, and an introduction to the owner.
Latest events
Dated events about this power plant from official notices, registers and owners' press releases, newest first. All recent changes.
- Permit refused (planning authority Inverclyde, reference 13/0036/IC)
- Permit applied for (planning authority Inverclyde, reference 13/0036/IC)
How it compares
Priestside Farm was cancelled before it was built: it is not ranked among the power plants that run, and its 1.8 MW is not counted in their totals.
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 208 substations, 199 grid connections (102 operating, 1,187 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Priestside Farm Wind Turbine grid connection | Grid connection | 1.8 MW | Operating | 0.2 km |
| Port Glasgow | Substation | — | — | 1.2 km |
| Ardgowan Estate grid connection | Grid connection | 23.8 MW | Planned | 1.8 km |
| Harelaw Gas grid connection | Grid connection | 20 MW | Operating | 2.1 km |
| Boundary Street | Substation | — | — | 3.2 km |
| Kilmacolm | Substation | — | — | 3.9 km |
| iomart Glasgow Data Centre | Data center | — | — | 25 km |
| Verizon Glasgow GLSGGB | Data center | — | — | 26 km |
| DataVita DV2 | Data center | — | — | 26 km |
Place
Grid connections attached to this power plant
Other power plants in Scotland
- Longannet2,260 MW
- Torness1,200 MW
- Peterhead1,180 MW
- Seagreen1,075 MW
- Hunterston B985 MW
- Moray East950 MW
- Moray West Offshore Wind Farm Project882 MW
- Auchentiber Road - Battery Energy Storage System700 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.
- © OpenStreetMap contributors. OpenStreetMap data centers, ODbL 1.0.
- Rare Context entity resolution. Rare Context entity resolution, CC0 1.0.
- SP Energy Networks, via Northern Powergrid Open Data. SP Energy Networks open data portal, CC BY 4.0.