Windy Rig
Windy Rig is a 43.2 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
- 43.2 MW
- Status
- Operational
- Technology
- Wind Β· Onshore
- Operator
- Greencoat Capital
- Region
- Scotland
- Country
- Scotland
- Grid connection (DUKES)
- HV
- Combined heat & power
- No
- Coordinates
- 55.2747, -4.1786
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 Windy Rig compares
At a typical UK load factor for this technology (about 26% of the maximum possible output), a 43.2 MW station would generate roughly 98 GWh of electricity in a year, similar to the annual use of about 36,440 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
- Brockloch Rig 1 Β· 21.6 MW onshore wind farm2.5 km
- Brockloch Rig Β· 61.5 MW onshore wind farm4.9 km
- South Kyle Β· 240 MW onshore wind farm7.9 km
- Drumjohn Β· 1 MW small hydro scheme9.4 km
- Wether Hill Β· 18.2 MW onshore wind farm10.2 km
- Hare Hill I Β· 13.2 MW onshore wind farm10.3 km
- Kendoon Β· 24 MW hydroelectric station10.9 km
- Sanquhar Β· 31.1 MW onshore wind farm11.4 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
- Windy Rig Wind Farm
- Developer / operator
- Statkraft UK
- Planning authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Planning reference
- 19/0938/FUL
- Application submitted
- 11 June 2019
- Permission granted
- 8 November 2019
- Construction started
- 1 March 2020
- Began operating
- 1 October 2021
- Capacity in planning record
- 43 MW
- Address
- Carsphairn, Castle Douglas,, Dumfries and Galloway, DG7 3
- REPD reference
- 7562
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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