Whitelee Battery— 50 MW Wind
Whitelee Battery is a 50 MW wind power plant in the United Kingdom. Ranked #114 of 819 wind plants in the United Kingdom. Its 50 MW represents 0.16% of the United Kingdom's total wind capacity of 30,806 MW. The largest wind plant in the United Kingdom is Hornsea 1 - Heron & Njord at 1,200 MW, making Whitelee Battery 24 times smaller. Within 50 km, the nearest plants are Whitelee Wind Farm (539 MW, Wind) and Whitelee 2 (217.02 MW, Wind). The facility is located in Scotland, approximately 20 km south of Glasgow.
8 years old
United Kingdom, Europe
- 269. largest of 3,024 plants in United Kingdom
- #13,082 worldwide by installed capacity
- #1,297 of 5,731 Wind plants worldwide
- 0.03% of the installed capacity of United Kingdom
8 years in operation
Wind fleet average: 14.4 years
ScottishPower Renewables operates 15 plants totalling 1,635 MW
250 plants within 100 km, 8,948 MW combined
Source: Wikidata
Location
Zero Direct Emissions
Whitelee Battery is a wind power plant producing approximately 131 GWh of clean electricity per year with zero direct CO₂ emissions during operation.
Lifecycle emissions: ~11 g CO₂/kWh (manufacturing, transport, decommissioning)
Technical Details
- Primary Fuel Type
- Wind
- Energy Source
- Renewable
- Country
United Kingdom- Continent
- Europe
- Data Source
- Global Power Plant Database
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