Glenkerie
Glenkerie is a 22 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
- 22 MW
- Status
- Operational
- Technology
- Wind Β· Onshore
- Operator
- Venitent Energy Services
- Region
- Scotland
- Country
- Scotland
- Grid connection (DUKES)
- LV
- Combined heat & power
- No
- Postcode
- ML12 6QL
- Coordinates
- 55.5385, -3.4205
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 Glenkerie compares
At a typical UK load factor for this technology (about 26% of the maximum possible output), a 22 MW station would generate roughly 50 GWh of electricity in a year, similar to the annual use of about 18,560 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
- Clyde Windfarm (North) Β· 198 MW onshore wind farm8.0 km
- Clyde Windfarm (Central) Β· 196 MW onshore wind farm9.7 km
- Clyde Windfarm (South) Β· 129 MW onshore wind farm13.2 km
- Middle Muir Wind Farm Β· 51 MW onshore wind farm21.6 km
- Muirhall South (GB) Β· 8.25 MW onshore wind farm25.2 km
- Bonnington Β· 11 MW hydroelectric station25.5 km
- Andershaw Β· 36 MW onshore wind farm27.0 km
- Bowbeat (Emly Bank) - RO Β· 15.6 MW onshore wind farm27.2 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
- Glenkerie Wind Farm
- Developer / operator
- Novera Energy
- Planning authority
- Scottish Borders
- Planning reference
- 07/02478/FUL
- Application submitted
- 20 December 2007
- Permission granted
- 8 September 2008
- Construction started
- 1 April 2011
- Began operating
- 1 February 2012
- Capacity in planning record
- 22 MW
- Address
- Kingledores Farm, Broughton, Biggar, Strathclyde. ML12 6QL, Borders
- REPD reference
- 3538
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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