Griffin Wind Farm
Griffin Wind Farm is a 189 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
- 189 MW
- Status
- Operational
- Technology
- Wind Β· Onshore
- Operator
- SSE Group
- Region
- Scotland
- Country
- Scotland
- Grid connection (DUKES)
- HV
- Combined heat & power
- No
- Coordinates
- 56.5812, -3.7338
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 Griffin Wind Farm compares
At a typical UK load factor for this technology (about 26% of the maximum possible output), a 189 MW station would generate roughly 430 GWh of electricity in a year, similar to the annual use of about 159,090 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
- Pitlochry Power Station - A Β· 15 MW hydroelectric station13.1 km
- Pitlochry Compensation Generation - A Β· 0.06 MW small hydro scheme13.1 km
- Clunie Β· 61.2 MW hydroelectric station13.2 km
- Clunie Dam - A Β· 0.18 MW small hydro scheme13.2 km
- Errochty Β· 75 MW hydroelectric station24.4 km
- Tullymurdoch Β· 14.4 MW onshore wind farm27.0 km
- Lednock Power Station - A Β· 3 MW small hydro scheme28.1 km
- Dalchonize Power Station-A,C Β· 4 MW small hydro scheme29.8 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
- Developer / operator
- Greenpower (Griffin) Ltd
- Planning authority
- Scottish Government (S36)
- Application submitted
- 27 April 2004
- Permission granted
- 31 January 2008
- Construction started
- 1 July 2010
- Began operating
- 28 February 2012
- Capacity in planning record
- 156 MW
- Address
- Griffin Forest, Tayside
- REPD reference
- 4028
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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