Biomass power plant in Scotland, United Kingdom. Approximate location 57.4549, -3.123.
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Glenfiddich Distillery is a 2 MW biomass power plant in Scotland, United Kingdom. It is operated by William Grant and Sons Distillers. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 2,064 homes (estimated). It ranks #2589 of 2,862 United Kingdom power plants by installed capacity. In context, biomass supplies about 14.1% 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 GBR2001197.
At 2 MW, Glenfiddich Distillery is below the median biomass plant in United Kingdom (2 MW). Biomass plants burn organic material such as wood, residues or waste-derived fuel to raise steam; they are dispatchable and counted as low-carbon where the feedstock is sustainably sourced.
Capacity comparison computed from the WRI Global Power Plant Database; fuel-type context is general engineering background.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by William Grant and Sons Distillers.
This biomass plant burns organic material (wood, residues) to raise steam for a turbine. It sits in a subpolar oceanic climate (Köppen Cfc) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 57.5°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 67% 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: 85/100 — 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.
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 #168 largest biomass power plant of 226 in United Kingdom by capacity.
United Kingdom has 226 biomass power plants in this dataset, together about 1,584 MW of capacity.
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Coordinates 57.4549, -3.123 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
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Glenfiddich Distillery is a 2 MW biomass power plant in Scotland, United Kingdom.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 2,064 homes (estimated).
Glenfiddich Distillery is operated by William Grant and Sons Distillers.
