Solar power plant in Scotland, United Kingdom. Approximate location 56.3677, -3.2771.
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Errol Estate is a 13 MW solar power plant in Scotland, United Kingdom. It is operated by Elgin Energy EsCo. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 5,531 homes (estimated). It ranks #681 of 2,751 United Kingdom power plants by installed capacity. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, solar supplies about 6.6% of United Kingdom's electricity; the national grid averages 217 gCO₂/kWh (64.4% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id GBR0001930.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Elgin Energy EsCo. All plants by this company →
This solar plant converts sunlight directly into electricity with photovoltaic panels. It sits in a temperate oceanic climate (Köppen Cfb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 56.4°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.
Monthly mean temperature
Heating degree-days here run 48% above the median power plant in this dataset — a proxy for how much extra energy heated equipment must replace through its surfaces in winter.
Climate heat-demand index: 79/100 — this site sits in the top third of the power plants we cover by heating degree-days.
In colder climates, uninsulated hot equipment (boilers, turbines, valves, steam lines) loses proportionally more heat to ambient air — exactly the loss Inzonex modular insulation is designed to cut.
Solar PV loses ~0.35%/°C above 25°C cell temperature — roughly 0.0% at warm-season highs here (estimate).
Climate normals: WorldClim 2.1 (1970–2000 monthly normals, 10 arc-min, CC BY 4.0); zone: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid). Degree-days & heat-demand index computed by PowerAtlas — a modelled heat-demand proxy, not a measured site figure.
The #144 largest solar power plant of 1170 in United Kingdom by capacity.
United Kingdom has 1170 solar power plants in this dataset, together about 8,674 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 56.3677, -3.2771 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
