Power plant · Clackmannanshire, Scotland, United Kingdom
Windburn Wind Farm
Windburn Wind Farm is a planned power plant in Clackmannanshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, with 65 MW of capacity, operated by Wind 2 Limited and Octopus Energy.
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 | Clackmannanshire (coordinates), Scotland | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | Windburn Wind Farm, Hillfoots Business Village, Alva, FK12 5DQ | 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 |
| Onshore or offshore | Onshore | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Application date | 5 Jun 2025 (reference ECU00004782, planning authority Scottish Government (S36)) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Wind 2 Limited (Octopus Energy / Wind 2 Limited) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Octopus Energy (Octopus Energy / Wind 2 Limited) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 65 MW | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Units | 13 units (5 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 | 56.1519, -3.7841 | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
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How it compares
Windburn Wind Farm is the 240th-largest of 872 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in Scotland and the 655th-largest of 3,222 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 65 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 | 240th of 872 | 99,272 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 655th of 3,222 | 300,661 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 1,617th of 6,455 | 664,240 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 46 grid connections (18 operating, 219 MW), 35 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Windburn Wind Farm 75MW Wind, 35MW BESS grid connection | Grid connection | 110 MW | Planned | 10.0 km |
| Highland Spring Group grid connection | Grid connection | 5.5 MW | Planned | 12 km |
| Dunblane Primary | Substation | — | — | 12 km |
| Glendevon Primary | Substation | — | — | 12 km |
| Kierallan Farm Solar & Storage 50MW grid connection | Grid connection | 50 MW | Planned | 13 km |
| Gleneagles Primary | Substation | — | — | 15 km |
| Edinburgh SC-3 | Data center | — | — | 34 km |
| Sungard Availability Services | Data center | — | — | 36 km |
| DataVita DV1 | Data center | — | — | 37 km |
Operators and place
More from Wind 2 Limited
- Windburn Wind Farm35 MW · planned
- South Kilbraur Wind Farm28 MW
- Moorshield Wind Farm15 MW · permitted
- Hill of Stoneyfield - Wind Turbines14.4 MW · planned
- Castletown - Wind Farm12 MW · planned
- Castletown - Wind Farm9.6 MW · planned
- Balmeanach grid connection45 MW
- Brae Wind Farm grid connection24.8 MW
Other power plants in Scotland
- Seagreen1,075 MW
- Moray East950 MW
- Moray West Offshore Wind Farm Project882 MW
- Lewis Wind Farm (Barvas Moor)652 MW
- Beatrice588 MW
- Neart na Gaoithe450 MW
- Viking Wind Farm443 MW
- Cruachan440 MW
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.
- © OpenStreetMap contributors. OpenStreetMap data centers, ODbL 1.0.
- 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.
- SSEN Distribution. SSEN Distribution data portal, CC BY 4.0.