Clyde
- Category: Renewables
- Energy type: Onshore wind
- Project type: Asset
The Clyde wind farm was officially opened by Scotland’s then First Minister, Alex Salmond. Clyde, currently one of Europe’s biggest single consented wind farms, started exporting electricity to the national grid in June 2011.
- 152 turbines at Clyde wind farm are split into three sections
- total installed capacity of 350MW
- situated between Biggar and Moffat occupying around 47 square kilometres
In March 2016, SSE signed agreements for the sale of 49.9% of Clyde Wind Farm to Greencoat UK Wind Plc (“UKW”) and GMPF & LPFA Infrastructure LLP (“GLIL”). For more information about our Partners please click on the link at the bottom of the page.
We operate a leading community investment programme, delivering financial support to a diverse range of community projects near to our renewable developments in the UK and Ireland. Please visit our Communities page for more information.

Quick overview
Consent for Clyde wind farm was granted by Scottish Ministers in July 2008 with construction commencing in April 2009. At the peak of construction around 400 people were employed on the site. Clyde’s location presented many engineering challenges, including the need to construct around 105km of roads to enable access to the furthest reaches of the site. Associated infrastructure also included two substations, one operations building and a new radar installation in Cumbernauld.
The £500m project has contributed approximately £100m of contract value with companies in Scotland, including Wind Towers in Machrihanish supplying the turbine towers, plus associated indirect value to the supply chain.
Clyde continues to provide a range of employment opportunities with 10 full-time SSE staff and 39 Siemens staff based across the site with additional jobs created off-site to facilitate operations and maintenance.

Clyde extension
In July 2014, SSE Renewables was granted consent by the Scottish Government, to construct and operate a 54 turbine extension to the existing 152 turbine Clyde Wind Farm located between Biggar, Abington and Moffat.
The extension site is positioned in the land surrounding Camps Reservoir to the north-east of the operational site and is situated within both Scottish Borders and South Lanarkshire Council areas. The extension will create an infill between the central and north sections of the existing Clyde Wind Farm.
When the extension to Clyde is commissioned (currently under construction with completion expected mid 2017) the equity stake jointly owned by UKW and GLIL will be diluted to 30% with SSE retaining 70%.
For more information about Clyde Extension please click here.

Community
We recognise that our investments in new electricity generation benefit from the co-operation of the local community in a variety of ways, particularly during the construction phase. In recognition of this, our policy is to establish long-term funds to support community projects in areas where we are developing generation projects.
Crawford Play Park, pictured above, was officially opened in June 2016. The play park was funded Clyde Wind Farm Fund and the Clyde Extension Wind Farm Fund.
Please visit our Communities page for more information.
Contact info

Pauline Allison
SSE
1 Waterloo Street
Glasgow
G2 6AY