Brownside Solar Farm

Introduction

Welcome to the project website for greentech’s proposal to develop a solar farm with battery storage called Brownside Solar Farm in Aberdeenshire, located approximately 2km north-west of Forglen Hall.

We held our second consultation event on Wednesday 16 October 2024, 12.30pm - 7pm at Forglen Village Hall. Please visit the ‘Consultation’ tab for the exhibition material. This follows the first exhibition, which took place at Alvah Village Hall on 24 September 2024.

We expect the project to be around 35MW of solar electricity production, with solar panels set on frames in rows running east to west.

greentech has undertaken some initial site feasibility work and prepared an initial layout where we have identified setbacks, exclusion areas and landscaping opportunities to ensure that the proposal will have minimal impacts on nearby residential amenities.

A Proposal of Application Notice (PoAN) was submitted to Aberdeenshire Council on 4 September 2024 to start a formal consultation process on our plans before a possible submission of a planning application, expected later in 2024.

Please find the exhibition boards of the proposal, including site location, early site layout and photo viewpoints here.

We will continue to update this project website as we progress our plans.