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Transmission / Projects / North Scotland

Cnoc Buidhe Wind Farm

CNOC BUIDHE WIND ENERGY HUB LIMITED at Cnoc Buidhe 132kV/33kV Substation

Connection date
2 Apr 2030
Gate
Not stated
Status
Scoping
Planning consent
Application submitted 10 Apr 2025
Scottish Government (S36), reference ECU00004767 · Source: REPD
Technology
Storage + Onshore wind
Total capacity
220 MW
Connected now
0 MW
Still to connect
220 MW
Transmission owner
SSEN Transmission (SHET)
Agreement type
Direct Connection
Region
North Scotland
Project number
PRO-001672
In the register since
December 2021

What would CMP470’s commitment fee do to a battery like this? See the use case: Will CMP470’s commitment fee clear the battery queue?

Stages

StageConnected MWAdds MWCumulative MWDateGateStatus
101501502 Apr 2030Not statedScoping
207022031 Oct 2034Not statedScoping

Change history

Every change to this project across 151 registers from 29 Jan 2021 to 5 Nov 2026.

  • 30 May 2025 register
    Stage 1: Connection date moved from 30 Apr 2029 to 2 Apr 2030 (+11 months)
  • 24 Dec 2024 register
    Stage 1: Connection date moved from 31 Oct 2028 to 30 Apr 2029 (+6 months)
  • 23 Dec 2022 register
    Restructured from 1 stage (150 MW from 30 Sep 2027) to 2 stages (150 MW from 31 Oct 2028, 70 MW from 31 Oct 2034). First connection date +13 months
  • 29 Jul 2022 register
    Renamed from BPUWL 12
  • 30 Mar 2022 register
    Customer changed from BPUWL 12 LIMITED to CNOC BUIDHE WIND ENERGY HUB LIMITED
  • 31 Dec 2021 register
    Added to the register

Also at Cnoc Buidhe 132kV/33kV Substation

Substation view

No other projects in the register at this connection point.

Status definitions (NESO)

Scoping: NESO is not aware that a planning application has been made.

Awaiting Consents: NESO is aware, or the customer has told it, that a planning application has been made.

Consents Approved: NESO is aware, or the customer has told it, that the planning application has been approved.

Terminated: used by NESO only in its register of 30 April 2021, for two projects that left the register the next month.

These statuses are NESO’s, not QueueWatch’s, and NESO describes them as “as far as we are aware”, so a project may be further along than its status shows.

Source: NESO

Planning consent

The planning decision or stage for this project, from DESNZ’s Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD), July 2026 edition, with the planning authority and its reference. QueueWatch matched the project to that record. NESO’s status can lag behind planning decisions, so the two may differ.

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