Carcant Wind Farm
Carcant Wind Farm is a 6 MW onshore wind farm in Scotland, operated by Greencoat Capital. 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
- 6 MW
- Status
- Operational
- Technology
- Wind Β· Onshore
- Operator
- Greencoat Capital
- Region
- Scotland
- Country
- Scotland
- Grid connection (DUKES)
- LV
- Combined heat & power
- No
- Coordinates
- 55.7648, -3.0176
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 Carcant Wind Farm compares
At a typical UK load factor for this technology (about 26% of the maximum possible output), a 6 MW station would generate roughly 14 GWh of electricity in a year, similar to the annual use of about 5,060 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 Greencoat CapitalNearby generating sites
- Bowbeat (Roughside) - RO Β· 15.6 MW onshore wind farm7.4 km
- Bowbeat (Emly Bank) - RO Β· 15.6 MW onshore wind farm8.5 km
- Toddleburn Windfarm Β· 27.6 MW onshore wind farm8.8 km
- Dun Law I Β· 17.2 MW onshore wind farm9.5 km
- Dun Law II Β· 29.8 MW onshore wind farm11.3 km
- Longpark Β· 38 MW onshore wind farm16.0 km
- Fallago Rig Β· 144 MW onshore wind farm21.9 km
- Cockenzie Power Station Β· 1,152 MW coal-fired power station23.1 km
Also operated by Greencoat Capital
Greencoat Capital operates 195 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
- Carcant Windfarm
- Developer / operator
- Greencoat UK Wind
- Planning authority
- Scottish Borders
- Planning reference
- 05/01884/FUL
- Application submitted
- 10 October 2005
- Permission granted
- 15 September 2006
- Construction started
- 1 April 2010
- Began operating
- 2 November 2010
- Capacity in planning record
- 6 MW
- Address
- Innerleithen, Borders
- REPD reference
- 3214
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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