Seagreen
Seagreen is a 1,075 MW offshore wind farm in Scotland, operated by SSE Group. 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
- 1,075 MW
- Status
- Operational
- Technology
- Wind Β· Offshore
- Operator
- SSE Group
- Region
- Scotland
- Country
- Scotland
- Grid connection (DUKES)
- HV
- Combined heat & power
- No
- Coordinates
- 56.5696, -1.7250
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 Seagreen compares
At a typical UK load factor for this technology (about 38% of the maximum possible output), a 1,075 MW station would generate roughly 3,578 GWh of electricity in a year, similar to the annual use of about 1,325,360 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 SSE GroupNearby generating sites
- NNG Β· 448 MW offshore wind farm46.5 km
- Twinshiels Β· 25 MW onshore wind farm50.6 km
- Park Hill Β· 5 MW solar farm52.9 km
- Tullo Β· 17.5 MW onshore wind farm52.9 km
- Kinblethmont Β· 5 MW solar farm53.9 km
- Meikle Carewe Wind Farm (GB) Β· 10.2 MW onshore wind farm60.2 km
- Pressock Β· 4.25 MW solar farm60.5 km
- Guynd Β· 9.5 MW solar farm60.6 km
Also operated by SSE Group
SSE Group operates 127 sites in the register. Largest first:
- Peterhead Β· gas-fired power station1,180 MW
- Keadby 2 Β· gas-fired power station840 MW
- Medway Β· gas-fired power station755 MW
- Keadby Β· CCGT gas power station735 MW
- Beatrice Offshore windfarm Β· offshore wind farm588 MW
- Greater Gabbard Β· offshore wind farm504 MW
- Viking Wind Farm Β· onshore wind farm443 MW
- Foyers Pumped Storage Β· pumped-storage station300 MW
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
- SSE / Seagreen Wind Energy Ltd
- Planning authority
- Marine Scotland
- Application submitted
- 23 October 2012
- Permission granted
- 16 May 2017
- Construction started
- 1 May 2021
- Began operating
- 16 October 2023
- Capacity in planning record
- 1,075 MW
- Address
- Firth of Forth Wind Zone 2, Dundee, Tayside, Offshore, DD4 0AD
- REPD reference
- 2540
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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