Middle Balbeggie
Middle Balbeggie is a 6.4 MW onshore wind farm in Scotland, operated by Capital Dynamics UK. 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
- 6.4 MW
- Status
- Operational
- Technology
- Wind Β· Onshore
- Operator
- Capital Dynamics UK
- Region
- Scotland
- Country
- Scotland
- Grid connection (DUKES)
- LV
- Combined heat & power
- No
- Postcode
- KY1 3NS
- Coordinates
- 56.1537, -3.1645
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 Middle Balbeggie compares
At a typical UK load factor for this technology (about 26% of the maximum possible output), a 6.4 MW station would generate roughly 15 GWh of electricity in a year, similar to the annual use of about 5,400 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 Capital Dynamics UKNearby generating sites
- Middle Balbeggie Β· 5 MW solar farm0.8 km
- West Strathore Β· 4.98 MW solar farm1.5 km
- Markinch Β· 61 MW biomass power station5.3 km
- Earlseat Wind Farm (GB) Β· 16 MW onshore wind farm5.6 km
- Little Raith (GB) Β· 24.8 MW onshore wind farm6.6 km
- Westfield Β· 10 MW onshore wind farm8.1 km
- EPR Scotland Ltd Β· 12.5 MW biomass power station8.8 km
- Mossmorran Β· 4.6 MW onshore wind farm11.8 km
Also operated by Capital Dynamics UK
Capital Dynamics UK operates 25 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
- Middle Balbeggie Wind Turbines
- Developer / operator
- Capital Dynamics
- Planning authority
- Fife
- Planning reference
- 12/04094/EIA
- Application submitted
- 28 September 2012
- Permission granted
- 29 January 2014
- Construction started
- 15 June 2015
- Began operating
- 20 November 2016
- Capacity in planning record
- 6.4 MW
- Address
- Land Surrounding Middle Balbeggie Balbeggie Avenue Balbeggie Thornton Fife, Fife
- REPD reference
- 4094
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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