Whiteside Hill
Whiteside Hill is a 28.5 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
- 28.5 MW
- Status
- Operational
- Technology
- Wind Β· Onshore
- Operator
- Capital Dynamics UK
- Region
- Scotland
- Country
- Scotland
- Grid connection (DUKES)
- HV
- Combined heat & power
- No
- Postcode
- DG4 6LF
- Coordinates
- 55.3574, -4.0294
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 Whiteside Hill compares
At a typical UK load factor for this technology (about 26% of the maximum possible output), a 28.5 MW station would generate roughly 65 GWh of electricity in a year, similar to the annual use of about 24,040 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
- Sanquhar Β· 31.1 MW onshore wind farm1.8 km
- Hare Hill I Β· 13.2 MW onshore wind farm6.2 km
- Hare Hill II Β· 29.8 MW onshore wind farm7.5 km
- TwentyShilling Hill Β· 37.8 MW onshore wind farm9.2 km
- Brockloch Rig 1 Β· 21.6 MW onshore wind farm11.8 km
- Windy Rig Β· 43.2 MW onshore wind farm13.2 km
- Brockloch Rig Β· 61.5 MW onshore wind farm13.9 km
- Wether Hill Β· 18.2 MW onshore wind farm15.0 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
- Developer / operator
- Whiteside Hill Farm (Scotland)
- Planning authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Planning reference
- 06/P/3/0351
- Application submitted
- 15 June 2006
- Permission granted
- 26 February 2013
- Construction started
- 15 January 2016
- Began operating
- 30 April 2018
- Capacity in planning record
- 25.3 MW
- Address
- Whiteside Hill near Sanquhar, Dumfries and Galloway
- REPD reference
- 4502
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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