Galawhistle
Galawhistle is a 66 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
- 66 MW
- Status
- Operational
- Technology
- Wind Β· Onshore
- Operator
- Venitent Energy Services
- Region
- Scotland
- Country
- Scotland
- Grid connection (DUKES)
- HV
- Combined heat & power
- No
- Postcode
- ML11 0SJ
- Coordinates
- 55.5395, -3.9754
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 Galawhistle compares
At a typical UK load factor for this technology (about 26% of the maximum possible output), a 66 MW station would generate roughly 150 GWh of electricity in a year, similar to the annual use of about 55,670 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
- Hagshaw Hill II Β· 26 MW onshore wind farm3.9 km
- Cumberhead Wind Farm Β· 50 MW onshore wind farm4.1 km
- Douglas West Β· 44.9 MW onshore wind farm7.0 km
- Nutberry Β· 15 MW onshore wind farm7.5 km
- Dalquhandy Β· 42 MW onshore wind farm7.5 km
- Andershaw Β· 36 MW onshore wind farm8.8 km
- Auchrobert Β· 38.8 MW onshore wind farm9.4 km
- Dungavel Β· 26 MW onshore wind farm10.9 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
- Developer / operator
- Ventient (formerly Infinis)
- Planning authority
- Scottish Government (S36)
- Application submitted
- 12 March 2010
- Permission granted
- 8 August 2012
- Construction started
- 18 June 2015
- Began operating
- 15 February 2017
- Capacity in planning record
- 66 MW
- Address
- 7km east of Muirkirk in East Ayrshire and 4km west of Douglas in South Lanarkshire, Strathclyde
- REPD reference
- 4368
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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