Calder Water
Calder Water is a 39 MW onshore wind farm in Scotland, operated by Community Wind Power. 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
- 39 MW
- Status
- Operational
- Technology
- Wind Β· Onshore
- Operator
- Community Wind Power
- Region
- Scotland
- Country
- Scotland
- Grid connection (DUKES)
- LV
- Combined heat & power
- No
- Coordinates
- 55.6374, -4.2119
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 Calder Water compares
At a typical UK load factor for this technology (about 26% of the maximum possible output), a 39 MW station would generate roughly 89 GWh of electricity in a year, similar to the annual use of about 32,900 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 Community Wind PowerNearby generating sites
- West Browncastle Β· 30 MW onshore wind farm2.4 km
- Whitelee I Β· 322 MW onshore wind farm6.4 km
- Whitelee II Β· 217 MW onshore wind farm6.6 km
- Kype Muir Wind Farm Β· 88.4 MW onshore wind farm7.2 km
- Dungavel Β· 26 MW onshore wind farm7.9 km
- AOE Β· 11.5 MW onshore wind farm8.3 km
- East Kilbride Β· 0.6 MW onshore wind farm12.1 km
- Blantyre Muir Wind Energy Ltd Β· 12.3 MW onshore wind farm13.9 km
Also operated by Community Wind Power
Community Wind Power operates 8 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
- Calder Water Community Wind Farm
- Developer / operator
- Community Windpower (Community Wind Power)
- Planning authority
- South Lanarkshire
- Planning reference
- EK/09/0290
- Application submitted
- 26 August 2009
- Permission granted
- 29 November 2011
- Began operating
- 1 September 2013
- Capacity in planning record
- 28 MW
- Address
- Harshaw Hill, Drumclog, Strathaven, Strathclyde. ML10 6QN, Strathclyde
- REPD reference
- 3688
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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