Mossmorran
Mossmorran is a 4.6 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
- 4.6 MW
- Status
- Operational
- Technology
- Wind Β· Onshore
- Operator
- Capital Dynamics UK
- Region
- Scotland
- Country
- Scotland
- Grid connection (DUKES)
- LV
- Combined heat & power
- No
- Postcode
- KY4 8EP
- Coordinates
- 56.0905, -3.3177
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 Mossmorran compares
At a typical UK load factor for this technology (about 26% of the maximum possible output), a 4.6 MW station would generate roughly 10 GWh of electricity in a year, similar to the annual use of about 3,880 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
- Little Raith (GB) Β· 24.8 MW onshore wind farm5.2 km
- EPR Scotland Ltd Β· 12.5 MW biomass power station5.7 km
- Westfield Β· 10 MW onshore wind farm6.3 km
- FMC Dunfermline Β· 1.5 MW onshore wind farm8.9 km
- Middle Balbeggie Β· 6.4 MW onshore wind farm11.8 km
- Middle Balbeggie Β· 5 MW solar farm12.4 km
- West Strathore Β· 4.98 MW solar farm13.2 km
- Markinch Β· 61 MW biomass power station15.6 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
- Mossmorran Wind Farm
- Developer / operator
- Airvolution Energy
- Planning authority
- Fife
- Planning reference
- 11/01807/FULL
- Application submitted
- 1 April 2011
- Permission granted
- 13 January 2012
- Construction started
- 1 September 2015
- Began operating
- 1 December 2015
- Capacity in planning record
- 4.6 MW
- Address
- Land At To The West Of Chemical Works, Mossmorran,, Fife
- REPD reference
- 2780
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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