Wardlaw Wood
Wardlaw Wood is a 18 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
- 18 MW
- Status
- Operational
- Technology
- Wind Β· Onshore
- Operator
- Community Wind Power
- Region
- Scotland
- Country
- Scotland
- Grid connection (DUKES)
- LV
- Combined heat & power
- No
- Coordinates
- 55.7225, -4.7895
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 Wardlaw Wood compares
At a typical UK load factor for this technology (about 26% of the maximum possible output), a 18 MW station would generate roughly 41 GWh of electricity in a year, similar to the annual use of about 15,180 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
- Millour Hill Β· 18 MW onshore wind farm1.3 km
- Millour Hill Ext. Β· 6.4 MW onshore wind farm1.4 km
- Kelburn Wind Farm (GB) Β· 28 MW onshore wind farm3.9 km
- Sorbie Β· 12.6 MW onshore wind farm6.0 km
- Hunterston A Β· 300 MW nuclear power station6.4 km
- Hunterston B Β· 980 MW nuclear power station6.4 km
- Torness Β· 1,200 MW nuclear power station6.6 km
- Lochcraigs Farm Β· 4.99 MW solar farm7.8 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
- Developer / operator
- Wind Prospect / Community Windpower
- Planning authority
- North Ayrshire
- Planning reference
- N/02/00906/PP
- Application submitted
- 1 December 2002
- Permission granted
- 1 September 2003
- Began operating
- 1 March 2006
- Capacity in planning record
- 18 MW
- Address
- Dalry Ayrshire, Strathclyde
- REPD reference
- 4691
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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