Gordonstown Hill
Gordonstown Hill is a 12.5 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
- 12.5 MW
- Status
- Operational
- Technology
- Wind Β· Onshore
- Operator
- Venitent Energy Services
- Region
- Scotland
- Country
- Scotland
- Grid connection (DUKES)
- LV
- Combined heat & power
- No
- Postcode
- AB53 8LH
- Coordinates
- 57.4619, -2.4828
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 Gordonstown Hill compares
At a typical UK load factor for this technology (about 26% of the maximum possible output), a 12.5 MW station would generate roughly 28 GWh of electricity in a year, similar to the annual use of about 10,540 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
- Glens of Foudland Β· 26 MW onshore wind farm10.4 km
- Dummuies Β· 12.3 MW onshore wind farm12.5 km
- Boganlea Β· 2.31 MW onshore wind farm15.9 km
- Boyndie Β· 16.3 MW onshore wind farm21.8 km
- Clashindarroch Β· 36.9 MW onshore wind farm22.9 km
- Cairnborrow Wind Energy Ltd Β· 10.3 MW onshore wind farm24.9 km
- Hill of Fiddes Β· 6.9 MW onshore wind farm28.0 km
- Kildrummy Β· 18.4 MW onshore wind farm29.4 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
- Gordonstown Hill Wind Farm
- Developer / operator
- Ventient (formerly Infinis)
- Planning authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Planning reference
- APP/2008/4244
- Application submitted
- 24 December 2008
- Permission granted
- 2 July 2009
- Construction started
- 23 July 2012
- Began operating
- 31 March 2013
- Capacity in planning record
- 12.5 MW
- Address
- Gordonstown Hill Kirkton Of Auchterless, Turiff, Grampian, AB53 8BG, Grampian
- REPD reference
- 3666
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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