Beinn Ghlas
Beinn Ghlas is a 8.4 MW onshore wind farm in Scotland, operated by Venitent Energy Services. The UK government lists it as operational in its register of power stations (DUKES table 5.11, May 2025).
- Onshore
- Scotland
Key facts
- Installed capacity
- 8.4 MW
- Status
- Operational
- Technology
- Wind Β· Onshore
- Operator
- Venitent Energy Services
- Region
- Scotland
- Country
- Scotland
- Grid connection (DUKES)
- LV
- Combined heat & power
- No
- Postcode
- PA35 1HY
- Coordinates
- 56.3823, -5.2977
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 Beinn Ghlas compares
At a typical UK load factor for this technology (about 26% of the maximum possible output), a 8.4 MW station would generate roughly 19 GWh of electricity in a year, similar to the annual use of about 7,090 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 Venitent Energy ServicesNearby generating sites
- Awe Barrage - A Β· 0.89 MW small hydro scheme7.3 km
- Nant Power Station - A,E Β· 15 MW hydroelectric station7.6 km
- Inverawe Β· 25 MW hydroelectric station7.6 km
- Cruachan Β· 440 MW pumped-storage station13.8 km
- Glen Noe Β· 2 MW small hydro scheme14.2 km
- Kilmelford Power Station - A, C, Β· 2 MW small hydro scheme18.3 km
- Kilmelford Compset A,C Β· 0.08 MW small hydro scheme18.3 km
- Tralaig Power Station Β· 0.08 MW small hydro scheme18.3 km
Also operated by Venitent Energy Services
Venitent Energy Services operates 33 sites in the register. Largest first:
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
- Beinn Ghlas Wind Farm
- Developer / operator
- RWE npower
- Planning authority
- Argyll and Bute
- Application submitted
- 7 May 1997
- Permission granted
- 21 August 1998
- Began operating
- 25 June 1999
- Capacity in planning record
- 7.8 MW
- Address
- Land at Carn Gaibhre, Argyle and Bute, Strathclyde
- REPD reference
- 3295
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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