Sanquhar
Sanquhar is a 31.1 MW onshore wind farm in Scotland, operated by Community Wind Power. 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
- 31.1 MW
- Status
- Operational
- Technology
- Wind Β· Onshore
- Operator
- Community Wind Power
- Region
- Scotland
- Country
- Scotland
- Grid connection (DUKES)
- HV
- Combined heat & power
- No
- Coordinates
- 55.3442, -4.0466
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 Sanquhar compares
At a typical UK load factor for this technology (about 26% of the maximum possible output), a 31.1 MW station would generate roughly 71 GWh of electricity in a year, similar to the annual use of about 26,190 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 Community Wind PowerNearby generating sites
- Whiteside Hill Β· 28.5 MW onshore wind farm1.8 km
- Hare Hill I Β· 13.2 MW onshore wind farm5.4 km
- Hare Hill II Β· 29.8 MW onshore wind farm7.8 km
- TwentyShilling Hill Β· 37.8 MW onshore wind farm9.6 km
- Brockloch Rig 1 Β· 21.6 MW onshore wind farm10.1 km
- Windy Rig Β· 43.2 MW onshore wind farm11.4 km
- Brockloch Rig Β· 61.5 MW onshore wind farm12.1 km
- Wether Hill Β· 18.2 MW onshore wind farm13.5 km
Also operated by Community Wind Power
Community Wind Power operates 8 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
- Sanquhar Community Windfarm
- Developer / operator
- Community Windpower
- Planning authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Planning reference
- 10/P/3/0182
- Application submitted
- 27 April 2010
- Permission granted
- 27 February 2013
- Construction started
- 15 May 2015
- Began operating
- 1 February 2018
- Capacity in planning record
- 32.4 MW
- Address
- located approximately 7km Southwest of Sanquhar, 5km to the Southwest of Kirkconnel and 4km Southwest of the small steading of Drumbuie, Dumfries and Galloway
- REPD reference
- 4441
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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