Fairburn Windfarm
Fairburn Windfarm is a 40 MW onshore 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).
- Onshore
- Scotland
Key facts
- Installed capacity
- 40 MW
- Status
- Operational
- Technology
- Wind Β· Onshore
- Operator
- SSE Group
- Region
- Scotland
- Country
- Scotland
- Grid connection (DUKES)
- LV
- Combined heat & power
- No
- Coordinates
- 57.5329, -4.6315
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 Fairburn Windfarm compares
At a typical UK load factor for this technology (about 26% of the maximum possible output), a 40 MW station would generate roughly 91 GWh of electricity in a year, similar to the annual use of about 33,740 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
- Torr Achilty Power Station - A,E Β· 15 MW hydroelectric station3.0 km
- Orrin Power Station- A Β· 18 MW hydroelectric station4.4 km
- Orrin Dam - A Β· 0.26 MW small hydro scheme4.8 km
- Meig Dam Β· 0.08 MW small hydro scheme6.5 km
- Aigas Power Station - A,E Β· 20 MW hydroelectric station9.8 km
- Kilmorack Power Station -A,E Β· 20 MW hydroelectric station10.5 km
- Luichart Dam - A Β· 0.09 MW small hydro scheme14.0 km
- Mossford Power Station - A,G Β· 18.7 MW hydroelectric station14.5 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
- Beatrice Offshore windfarm Β· offshore wind farm588 MW
- Greater Gabbard Β· offshore wind farm504 MW
- Viking Wind Farm Β· onshore wind farm443 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
- Fairburn
- Developer / operator
- Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE)
- Planning authority
- Highland
- Planning reference
- 05/00436/FULRC
- Application submitted
- 10 May 2005
- Permission granted
- 1 January 2008
- Construction started
- 1 February 2009
- Began operating
- 7 June 2010
- Capacity in planning record
- 43 MW
- Address
- Fairburn Marybank, Highland
- REPD reference
- 4675
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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