Peterhead Power Station
Peterhead Power Station is a multi-unit station owned and operated by SSE plc, with a capacity of 2,177 MW. It is located near Boddam and the A90, just south of Peterhead, in Aberdeenshire, in the northeast of Scotland.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: PortHenry, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Buchan Ness Lighthouse and Brethren Meeting House.
Buchan Ness Lighthouse
Lighthouse
Photo: Richard Slessor, CC BY-SA 2.0.
'Buchan Ness lighthouse is a light in Boddam, Aberdeenshire. Scotland. The area around the headland of Buchan Ness was for many centuries the point from which trading and whaling voyages departed across open ocean, bound for Archangel, Greenland and Spitsbergen amongst other destinations. Buchan Ness Lighthouse is situated 3,800 feet southeast of Peterhead Power Station.
Brethren Meeting House
Church
Photo: Seasider53, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Brethren Meeting House is a Category C listed building at 26 Gordon Street in Boddam, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. It was formerly a late-Victorian-era Wesleyan church. Brethren Meeting House is situated 2,900 feet southeast of Peterhead Power Station.
HM Prison Grampian
Prison
HMP & YOI Grampian is a high security prison in Peterhead, Scotland. It is the only such facility in the northeast of the country, having replaced the former HMPs in Aberdeen and Peterhead in 2014. HM Prison Grampian is situated 1 mile north of Peterhead Power Station.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Boddam and Buchan Ness.
Boddam
Village
Photo: Alan Jamieson, CC BY 2.0.
Boddam is a coastal village in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. It is 29 miles north of Aberdeen and 3 miles south of Peterhead. The settlement of Stirling Village lies immediately to the west.
Buchan Ness
Locality
Buchan Ness is a bridged island that is connected to the village of Boddam on mainland Scotland by a road running over a short causeway. In 2022 the census recorded a permanent population on the island of a single individual.
Clerkhill
Suburb
Photo: Ken Fitlike, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Clerkhill is an area of the town of Peterhead in north east Scotland. Surrounded by the areas of Meethill, Dales Park and Coplandhill, it is one of the bigger areas of the town. Clerkhill is situated 1½ miles north of Peterhead Power Station.
Peterhead Power Station
- Type: Power station
- Description: gas-fired power station in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK
- Categories: natural gas-fired power station, oil-fired power station, and industry
- Location: Aberdeenshire, North East Scotland, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
57.47792° or 57° 28′ 41″ northLongitude
-1.78818° or 1° 47′ 18″ westElevation
92 feet (28 metres)Operator
SSE ThermalOpen location code
9C9WF6H6+5POpenStreetMap ID
way 133329765OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=industrialGeoNames ID
9856078Wikidata ID
Q7178058
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From French to Scots—“Peterhead Power Station” goes by many names.
- French: “centrale de Peterhead”
- French: “Centrale de Peterhead”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Peterhead kraftverk”
- Norwegian: “Peterhead kraftverk”
- Scots: “Peterhead Pouer Station”
- Scots: “Peterheid Pouer Station”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Peterhead Power Station”. Photo: PortHenry, CC BY-SA 3.0.