Whitelee Windfarm is UK’s BIGGEST on land.
About Whitelee Windfarm
Whitelee is the UK’s largest onshore windfarm, located on Eaglesham Moor just 20 minutes from central Glasgow. Its 215 turbines generate up to 539 megawatts of electricity, enough to power over 350,000 homes*.
With more than 130 kilometres of trails to explore, on foot, by cycle or by horse, with free parking and free entry to our onsite Visitor Centre, Whitelee is a great destination for a day out with the whole family.
oops [Music] [Music] live for five live for five show people outside and then [Music] I think the hat will need to be fastened on cuz it’s windy outside i should have a should have a grip somewhere to hold on to this fully so one [Music] [Music] Okay make sure that’s tight yeah yeah seems to Okay [Music] right farm part of Scottish power let’s go outside experience the weather or if you’d like to see the exhibition center we’ll have a quick look in there do you want to look in let’s go in there first it’s actually quite a classy place and for bringing kids along from school you’ve got your own private room we just passed by there but you also have this amazing space look at this this would keep a class of kids going for a wee while wouldn’t it what have we got it’s all about power electricity and being green so can you navigate around the virtual white wind farm turn the pedals to start hi Kirsty thanks very much for looking in can you hear okay is um you hear all right yeah turn that back always lethal to let people see me on screen because it’ll disappear right let’s give it a try take care and pedaling okay let’s say woodland wanderer a short trip around i press a button or what give it a try this is your speed okay 12 14 stop palm pedaling come on press any button okay press a B get ready to Your pedal boost is starting okay 34 km/h i’m doing well here wow what’s this one name for red gross is lagapus something what do you think lagapus means red beast small bird i’d go for red beast let’s try a B wrong two more chances okay let’s go for a foot yay here we go well this would certainly wear your school kids out if you take them ecologist help maintain the habitat rightly what percent of Scotland currently covered in blanket box um I’m going to go 43 let’s go let’s see okay we’ll go for 23 yay so almost a quarter of Scotland is blanket box go right i think I’ve had enough of this knackered cradling what’s next oh something coming up here we’re getting another with this breathtaking scenery and 130 km of dead this was one of the fastest time for this 50k run 50k run okay uh I don’t know b okay faster than that spooky yay we get a boost don’t want a boost i’ve had enough of this right what else what else have we got so this one should have a something we don’t have it okay next next good you want to get your picture taken could I do this could I do this let’s give it a try can’t see what’s happening now never mind did it work just realized my wife is probably outside saying “Where the hell is Terry gone [Music] yeah good little area for having your sandwiches outside your coffee outside on a clear day you can see all the way down to the F of Clyde i think over there we’re seeing maybe Aaron in the distance reckon that’s Aron over there yes that’s Aron over there and Patty’s Melstone if it was a clearer day you would see down there on the water that’s where we are whitly green energy and if you have a card which you can borrow from here apparently you can use a solar carport i think you can still charge free while you’re having your tea or your walk charge free here nice it is isn’t it we had stacks of rain this morning it’s cleared up beautifully and these big arms going round are much bigger than you would think once you see them on the ground i’ll show you one up here there’s one just there just wait till you see the size of it in reality and there are I think hundreds of miles of tracks around here you can cycle if you want to or walk and amongst all of these I hope it’s not too noisy on the microphone but I’ve got the muffler thing on and it’s a Bluetooth mic so it should be okay very popular for cyclists and walkers lots of dog lockers right and there’s one of the the wind veins one of the blades and you can see the size of it compared to those people there let’s go and have a quick look at it we are creating hundreds of new green jobs scan the QR code to find yours today now QR code’s gone the weight of that must be substantial hi David how you doing just at Wind Lee White Lee Wind Farm there you are i’ll let you see the label they are White Lee Visitor Center big wind farm i think the biggest onland one in the UK i thought we could look inside this before had a feel we could look inside before just imagined it yeah huge thing yeah let’s see how many pieces have I pieced out from one end of this thing to the other end let’s see how far it goes 1 2 8 7 8 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 1 2 3 4 5 6 2 8 30 51 23 4 5 2 4 3 4 5 6 7 4 53 paces so you can work that out that’s quite a long structure isn’t it well this was really just a a quickie today just because I could I don’t know how good the the signal is and if it’s all pixelated really can’t tell these things until I come back home and have a look at this but uh you can tell me if you’ve got a second is the picture okay can you make out anything for example can you read this is showing you what you’ll find here see you’ve got bulgas fidel black darter dragonfly there you go how good how good is the rating on the other i’ve never seen an order in this country and I’ve hiked many many times but I saw one abroad saw one in Denmark about a couple months ago when we were on holiday on the the sand dunes very north of Denmark i was quite excited it did have the pattern it was exactly like that and it couldn’t make its way up the sand dudes if you have a look at my channel you’ll see a a video of that actually in second thoughts I’m beginning to wonder if I have made a video of that yet but yeah look at all of that that’s a lot of generators isn’t it [Music] and I said or hundreds of miles of tracks you could do yeah if you combined various ones together you could have a a lot and there’s a little lock there as well lo going monument and logo farm lock going farm you have a covenant museum there and that’s a covenant monument if you want to find out about covenanters definitely I have got several YouTube videos on that topic various battles fought between the covenanters and the the king’s troops so you got here as well i don’t didn’t think we’ve got adders here but they see we got others oh yeah you get adders i’ve never seen one but there’s lots of bits like this that you don’t usually get into yeah there might be some I see colors i haven’t seen a color for a while but yeah you get colors oh brown hairs heath Goldsmith is this Heath Goldmith beetle maybe the one we see at the the the lock in Harriers never seen one of those either i would love to see one but I’ve never seen one i’ve seen lizards I think in this country probably definitely see lizards mhm hi Yasmin thank you very much hey excellent great and Oscar yeah you like Scotland I think long as you don’t mind the occasional rain we got leaflets got one of those already somewhere it’s this one countryside Ranger events oh I’m interested in the Covenanters i’ll keep this one maybe pass one across to my grandchildren [Music] right so there we are that’s good we’ve got a Covenanters event trail thing as well 9th oh missed that one 9th of May uhhuh starting from Fenic Parish Church walk seven miles along quiet country roads and wind farm tracks finish at loggo goingat museum I could do that one myself couldn’t I do that one yourself both do that one okay so back the way we go i got a couple likes too a couple of thumbs up thank you very much for the thumbs up yeah I’ve got hundreds literally hundreds of videos on my channel you might want to have a look at them um especially Oscar so if you’re interested in Scotland have a look and see lots of walks that I’ve done not all live streamed but I I do like live streaming partly because you really don’t have to do anything you just sort of go out and talk and walk and look [Music] Well thank goodness it’s a bit cooler today it has been too hot for us [Music] it’s a popular place to walk not my favorite place by any means i don’t find the tracks all like great for walking on i’d rather have a bit of green it’s portal for dog walkers hence this little notice here [Music] i didn’t know that did you know that under section 9 of the Animals Act 1971 it’s an offense for dogs to attack and chase livestock that’s true and farmers are allowed to shoot dogs that are worrying or are about to worry farm animals wow have a look at that outdoor access code it’s always worth bearing in mind yeah farms are quite within the rights to shoot dogs yes they are worrying animals if they’re about to worry them too if they’re about to worry them as well they don’t have to have started all right [Music] now these wind generators go on for miles beautiful moment [Music] there was talk of building a big battery plant wasn’t there to charge is it up here that was going to do it yeah there’s still planning left I think so when there’s lots of wind like this and maybe not enough people using electricity they’ll be using it to charge up giant batteries just like your phone phone bank don’t know if you can hear the noise of these things kind of a grindy whoosh remember the we dog the last time we were up here that was trying to catch the the veins as we’re going around [Music] hi Michael Bush [Music] [Music] looking at that viewboard up there wonder if it’s going to get hit by the blades don’t know how often that happens i hope so [Music] it’s one of the worries that people bring up about these things is that oh they’ll hit the birds i think birds are smarter than that [Music] it’s kind of hypnotic isn’t it [Music] wonder how fast the tips of the blades are going [Music] probably traveling at 30 m an hour or something like that faster hello Scott how are you after all that rain this morning we thought it was time we got outside to get some lunch and we thought where better than the wind farm at White Lee so having had our sandwich and soup [Music] a little walk good i just posed a question i said “I wonder how fast the tips of those blades are going.” AJ hi AJ thank you and a few people have given me a thumbs up already that’s been good so if you’re looking in still maybe give me a thumbs up it’s good for the channels alligators or algorithms or something it has been that kind of a day all right I got a lot done i went into the greenhouse as well and I planted a few things potted up a few things there’s a map available for the wind farm i showed you the little box a few minutes ago and you can always find out where you are exactly just go to the near the tower look at the number and it’s on the map so you know exactly where you are you won’t get lost [Music] yeah yeah can you hear the sound of the the blades whoosh whoosh whoosh which way do you want to go pass that way you’re going nowhere except to the other road and it’s a long way yeah that’s where we can do a little walking bike it’s a popular place the cafe is quite good too you got a decent toasty toasty soup cakes empire biscuits scones it’s all here it’s allless what is all this about okay I’ll watch out for the we birds and have a look at the outdoor access code if you get a minute we’re at the UK’s biggest terrestrial wind farm europe’s biggest is it Europe’s biggest oh maybe somebody can find out europe’s biggest hi hi yeah you’d think it would but seem to survive you hold this a minute while I drop my jacket yeah woo try [Music] not to cover the microphone up my jacket thank you yeah such a difference got the waterproof on but I should have put a should have put a fleece on as well i should have put a fleece on as well scott saying it’s quite a difference between the the weather the last couple of days and now you got short sleeves i know they say you can see an awful lot up here by the way of wildlife but you never really see that much too many people around most of the time oh yeah i hope we got lots of nice footage there you are hello dog hey I’ll give you a pat as well yeah I will i will i will i will there you go there you go there you go yeah it was certainly roasting it was too hot and yesterday we had the the curtains drawn and the windows shut for the heat of the day to keep it out and it worked fairly well house was cooler by a few degrees than outside so a lot ofbody else was at the seaside we’re just trying to chill if you come to Quite Lee I explained earlier that you you’re not going to get lost because all of these wind generators wind power generators not generating wind generating power I’ve got a number on and you can pick up a a map from one of the boxes and apart from that you’ve also got occasionally way marks like this so we know that we’ve walked 100 mters from the visitor center if you want to go to Adakurig which you can cycle to on the main road 10 and a4 miles along this track there’s a circuit you can do and if you’re interested in a bit more mountain biking trails as well if that’s your bag there you go so you can do that as well so if you’re interested I’ll put that for you and you can always get the point there we go so you can bring your mountain bike visitor center caters for you i think they’ve got still free showers they used to have it any rate so presumably if you’re doing this in a wet day and you’re getting a bit muddy you could go to the free showers i like cycling but not mountain biking full set of paths i’ve cycled the top end up at the rig end just from the road into the wind farm that’s about all as I said I don’t find it that inspiring up here it’s basically a big bog [Music] [Music] [Music] i’m quite glad we had all of that rain this morning cuz otherwise there’d be a lot of pollen about view of all this grass the edges [Music] [Music] hi hi yeah it’s probably a good place if you want to take the kids and cycle it’s safe they’re not going to get run over they’re not going to get lost if they’ve got the little map you can see the numbers on the the generators here [Music] yeah I think sometimes they have over capacity and do switch some of them off but I mentioned earlier that there’s talk there’s plans to create a giant battery storage area up here somewhere so when the electricity is not really being used at the time they can just store it there’s number 41 I suppose with all the vegetation being left untouched it’s probably great for insect life you know invertebrates of various kinds will probably thrive in here and amongst all of that lot you’ll have vos shrews adders adders eating the vos in the shoes there’s a lovely viewpoint you can sit there and admire