Power plant · Scottish Borders, Scotland, United Kingdom

Windy Edge Wind Farm

Windy Edge Wind Farm is a cancelled power plant in Scottish Borders, Scotland, United Kingdom, with 27 MW of capacity, operated by Energiekontor Limited.

Facts

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Fact	Value	Source
Location	Scottish Borders (coordinates), Scotland	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Address	Land North East And North West Of Farmhouse Braidlie (Windy Edge) Hawick	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Status	Cancelled (planning permission expired)	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
Permit date	9 Jun 2016 (permit 13/00789/FUL, Town and Country Planning Act, issued by Scottish Borders)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Application date	4 Jul 2013 (reference 13/00789/FUL, planning authority Scottish Borders)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Decision date	29 Jun 2015 (refused, reference 13/00789/FUL, planning authority Scottish Borders)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Decision date	9 Jun 2016 (appeal granted, reference 13/00789/FUL, planning authority Scottish Borders)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Decision date	9 Jun 2016 (granted, reference 13/00789/FUL, planning authority Scottish Borders)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Operator	Energiekontor Limited	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Capacity	27 MW	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Units	9 units (2.3 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	55.2230, -2.7964	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026

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Latest events

Dated events about this power plant from official notices and registers, newest first. All recent changes.

1 Dec 2021Permit expired
9 Jun 2016Permit granted (planning authority Scottish Borders, reference 13/00789/FUL)
9 Jun 2016Permit granted (appeal granted, planning authority Scottish Borders, reference 13/00789/FUL)
29 Jun 2015Permit refused (planning authority Scottish Borders, reference 13/00789/FUL)
4 Jul 2013Permit applied for (planning authority Scottish Borders, reference 13/00789/FUL)

How it compares

Windy Edge Wind Farm is the 340th-largest of 1,196 power plants in Scotland and the 826th-largest of 5,050 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 27 MW is <0.1% of the 115,622 MW we hold for the United Kingdom. Ranks and totals cover the power plants in our data that report their capacity, not every one in existence. Power plants planned, permitted or under construction are ranked apart.

Within	Rank	Total	Share
Scotland	340th of 1,196	34,589 MW	<0.1%
United Kingdom	826th of 5,050	115,622 MW	<0.1%
All power plants in our data	3,096th of 12,032	1,190,447 MW	<0.1%

Nearby

Within 50 km of this power plant: 37 grid connections (18 operating, 212 MW), 20 substations and 1 transmission line, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 7, up to 3 per kind.

Name	Kind	Size	Status	Distance
Cross Border Connection (England)	Transmission line	—	Planned	8.9 km
Kinkry Hill	Substation	—	—	17 km
Land at High Park Foot grid connection	Grid connection	21.1 MW	Planned	19 km
Kielder Hydro grid connection	Grid connection	5.6 MW	Operating	19 km
Easton	Substation	—	—	21 km
Kielder	Substation	—	—	22 km
Dormansteads PC grid connection	Grid connection	40 MW	Planned	22 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.
SP Electricity North West, via Northern Powergrid Open Data. SP Electricity North West open data portal, CC BY 4.0.
JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN), European Commission, Joint Research Centre. JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN), CC BY 4.0.
Bundesnetzagentur, Marktstammdatenregister. Marktstammdatenregister, DL-DE-BY-2.0.
Dutch power station owners' and operators' pages. Dutch power station owners' and operators' pages, Facts only, each linked to its page.
Supported by Northern Powergrid Open Data. Northern Powergrid open data portal, Northern Powergrid Open Data Licence v1.0.
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.