Minsca
Minsca is a 36.8 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
- 36.8 MW
- Status
- Operational
- Technology
- Wind Β· Onshore
- Operator
- Venitent Energy Services
- Region
- Scotland
- Country
- Scotland
- Grid connection (DUKES)
- HV
- Combined heat & power
- No
- Postcode
- DG11 2QE
- Coordinates
- 55.1221, -3.3529
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 Minsca compares
At a typical UK load factor for this technology (about 26% of the maximum possible output), a 36.8 MW station would generate roughly 84 GWh of electricity in a year, similar to the annual use of about 31,040 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
- Ewe Hill I Β· 13.8 MW onshore wind farm2.1 km
- Ewe Hill II Β· 36.8 MW onshore wind farm2.1 km
- Steven's Croft Β· 46 MW biomass power station3.8 km
- Solwaybank Β· 30.4 MW onshore wind farm11.3 km
- Crossdykes Wind Farm Β· 48 MW onshore wind farm13.5 km
- Chapelcross Β· 196 MW nuclear power station14.7 km
- Minnygap (GB) Β· 25 MW onshore wind farm17.0 km
- Craig Β· 10 MW onshore wind farm18.6 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
- Developer / operator
- Airtricity
- Planning authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Planning reference
- 03p40389
- Application submitted
- 27 August 2003
- Permission granted
- 27 June 2004
- Began operating
- 1 March 2008
- Capacity in planning record
- 36.8 MW
- Address
- 8km NE of Lockerbie Dumfries and Galloway, Dumfries and Galloway
- REPD reference
- 4517
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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