Stroupster
Stroupster is a 29.9 MW onshore wind farm in Scotland, operated by Greencoat Capital. 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
- 29.9 MW
- Status
- Operational
- Technology
- Wind Β· Onshore
- Operator
- Greencoat Capital
- Region
- Scotland
- Country
- Scotland
- Grid connection (DUKES)
- LV
- Combined heat & power
- No
- Coordinates
- 58.5793, -3.1324
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 Stroupster compares
At a typical UK load factor for this technology (about 26% of the maximum possible output), a 29.9 MW station would generate roughly 68 GWh of electricity in a year, similar to the annual use of about 25,220 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 Greencoat CapitalNearby generating sites
- Bilbster Β· 3.9 MW onshore wind farm16.0 km
- Achairn Β· 6 MW onshore wind farm16.2 km
- Camster Β· 50 MW onshore wind farm20.6 km
- Halsary Β· 30 MW onshore wind farm24.3 km
- Bad a Cheo Β· 26.7 MW onshore wind farm24.7 km
- Burn of Whilk Β· 22.5 MW onshore wind farm27.4 km
- Causeymire Β· 48.3 MW onshore wind farm27.5 km
- Baillie Β· 53 MW onshore wind farm31.6 km
Also operated by Greencoat Capital
Greencoat Capital operates 195 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
- Hill of Stroupster Windfarm
- Developer / operator
- Greencoat UK Wind
- Planning authority
- Highland
- Planning reference
- 05/00273/FULCA
- Application submitted
- 7 June 2005
- Permission granted
- 8 April 2010
- Construction started
- 30 November 2013
- Began operating
- 3 December 2015
- Capacity in planning record
- 29.9 MW
- Address
- Stroupster, Caithness, Highland
- REPD reference
- 4121
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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