Beatrice Offshore windfarm
Beatrice Offshore windfarm is a 588 MW offshore wind farm in Scotland, operated by SSE Group. The UK government lists it as operational in its register of power stations (DUKES table 5.11, May 2025).
- Offshore
- Scotland
Key facts
- Installed capacity
- 588 MW
- Status
- Operational
- Technology
- Wind Β· Offshore
- Operator
- SSE Group
- Region
- Scotland
- Country
- Scotland
- Grid connection (DUKES)
- HV
- Combined heat & power
- No
- Coordinates
- 58.0882, -2.9502
Location
Map position from the published coordinates. For small sites this can be an approximate point rather than the exact boundary. Map Β© OpenStreetMap contributors.
How Beatrice Offshore windfarm compares
At a typical UK load factor for this technology (about 38% of the maximum possible output), a 588 MW station would generate roughly 1,957 GWh of electricity in a year, similar to the annual use of about 724,940 homes at 2,700 kWh each. This is an illustrative estimate, not the station's metered output: real generation varies with weather, availability and grid constraints.
Wind farms turn the kinetic energy of the wind into electricity with turbines. Output varies with wind speed. Offshore sites usually see stronger, steadier winds than onshore sites and so generate more per MW of capacity.
All UK wind farms Wind farms in Scotland All run by SSE GroupNearby generating sites
- Moray Offshore Windfarm West Limited Β· 882 MW offshore wind farm3.5 km
- Moray Offshore Windfarm East Limited Β· 950 MW offshore wind farm17.2 km
- Burn of Whilk Β· 22.5 MW onshore wind farm33.6 km
- Camster Β· 50 MW onshore wind farm40.3 km
- Achairn Β· 6 MW onshore wind farm41.6 km
- Bilbster Β· 3.9 MW onshore wind farm43.8 km
- Bad a Cheo Β· 26.7 MW onshore wind farm46.4 km
- Causeymire Β· 48.3 MW onshore wind farm50.1 km
Also operated by SSE Group
SSE Group operates 127 sites in the register. Largest first:
- Peterhead Β· gas-fired power station1,180 MW
- Seagreen Β· offshore wind farm1,075 MW
- Keadby 2 Β· gas-fired power station840 MW
- Medway Β· gas-fired power station755 MW
- Keadby Β· CCGT gas power station735 MW
- Greater Gabbard Β· offshore wind farm504 MW
- Viking Wind Farm Β· onshore wind farm443 MW
- Foyers Pumped Storage Β· pumped-storage station300 MW
Planning history
From the government's Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD), matched to this site by location, capacity and name.
- Planning status
- Operational
- Site name in planning record
- Beatrice
- Developer / operator
- Scottish & Southern Energy (SSE) / Repsol / CIP
- Planning authority
- Scottish Government (S36)
- Application submitted
- 25 April 2012
- Permission granted
- 19 March 2014
- Construction started
- 2 April 2017
- Began operating
- 5 August 2019
- Capacity in planning record
- 588 MW
- Address
- Offshore Scottish borders, Offshore
- REPD reference
- 2521
Source
Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ), Digest of UK Energy Statistics (DUKES), table 5.11: power stations in the United Kingdom β operational at end of May 2025.
Capacity is installed capacity as published, not current output. Status reflects the source date, not live operation.
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Last checked by Octary: 15 July 2026
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