Hywind BMU 1
Hywind BMU 1 is a 30 MW offshore wind farm in Scotland, operated by Scira Offshore Energy. The UK government lists it as operational in its register of power stations (DUKES table 5.11, May 2025).
- Offshore
- Scotland
Key facts
- Installed capacity
- 30 MW
- Status
- Operational
- Technology
- Wind Β· Offshore
- Operator
- Scira Offshore Energy
- Region
- Scotland
- Country
- Scotland
- Grid connection (DUKES)
- HV
- Combined heat & power
- No
- Coordinates
- 57.5075, -1.4426
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 Hywind BMU 1 compares
At a typical UK load factor for this technology (about 38% of the maximum possible output), a 30 MW station would generate roughly 100 GWh of electricity in a year, similar to the annual use of about 36,990 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 Scira Offshore EnergyNearby generating sites
- Peterhead Β· 1,180 MW gas-fired power station20.9 km
- Hill of Fiddes Β· 6.9 MW onshore wind farm45.5 km
- Aberdeen Β· 96.8 MW offshore wind farm49.5 km
- Boganlea Β· 2.31 MW onshore wind farm51.6 km
- Gordonstown Hill Β· 12.5 MW onshore wind farm62.4 km
- Boyndie Β· 16.3 MW onshore wind farm71.0 km
- Glens of Foudland Β· 26 MW onshore wind farm72.4 km
- Meikle Carewe Wind Farm (GB) Β· 10.2 MW onshore wind farm74.0 km
Also operated by Scira Offshore Energy
Scira Offshore Energy operates 7 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
- Hywind Scotland Pilot Park (Hywind 2) Demonstrator
- Developer / operator
- Statoil
- Planning authority
- Marine Scotland
- Application submitted
- 27 March 2015
- Permission granted
- 30 October 2015
- Construction started
- 27 April 2017
- Began operating
- 27 October 2017
- Capacity in planning record
- 30 MW
- Address
- Buchan Deeps, 20km off Peterhead, Offshore
- REPD reference
- 2479
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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