Power plant · Aberdeenshire, Scotland, United Kingdom
Wastewater Treatment Works, Fraserburgh
Wastewater Treatment Works, Fraserburgh is a power plant under construction in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, with 1.03 MW of capacity, operated by Scottish Water.
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 | Aberdeenshire (planning authority), Scotland | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | Waste Water Treatment Works At Phingask Fraserburgh, AB43 7BL | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Status | Under construction | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Permit date | 15 Dec 2020 (permit APP/2020/1636, Town and Country Planning Act, issued by Aberdeenshire) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Application date | 28 Sept 2020 (reference APP/2020/1636, planning authority Aberdeenshire) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Decision date | 15 Dec 2020 (granted, reference APP/2020/1636, planning authority Aberdeenshire) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Scottish Water | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 1.03 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 |
| Coordinates | 57.6926, -2.0456 | 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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Dated events about this power plant from official notices and registers, newest first. All recent changes.
- Permit granted (planning authority Aberdeenshire, reference APP/2020/1636)
- Permit applied for (planning authority Aberdeenshire, reference APP/2020/1636)
How it compares
Wastewater Treatment Works, Fraserburgh is the 851st-largest of 872 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in Scotland and the 3,090th-largest of 3,222 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 1.03 MW is <0.1% of the 300,461 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 | 851st of 872 | 99,272 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 3,090th of 3,222 | 300,461 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 6,322nd of 6,455 | 664,040 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 78 grid connections (43 operating, 193 MW) and 29 substations, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 6, up to 3 per kind.
| Name | Kind | Size | Status | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Generation 52.68 MW grid connection at Fraserburgh Grid | Grid connection | 52.7 MW | Planned | 0.9 km |
| Fraserburgh Battery Park grid connection | Grid connection | 48.3 MW | Planned | 1.4 km |
| Fraserburgh Primary | Substation | — | — | 1.4 km |
| Fraserburgh GSP | Substation | — | — | 1.5 km |
| Cairnbulg Estate BESS grid connection | Grid connection | 49.5 MW | Planned | 3.1 km |
| Strichen Primary | Substation | — | — | 12 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.
- 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.