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Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross was paid £36m last year to switch off its wind farms, because the wires south were full. That would cover every local household's electricity for about 1.2 years. A further 938 MW of approved clean power (almost all onshore wind) is still waiting to be built here: enough to supply a year's electricity to 819,000 homes. A 300 MW battery approved at Philips Mains, Mey in 2026 would store power that is currently wasted; it has not been built.
Ranks 1 of 650 for clean power approved and not built; 2 of 19 among seats with visible switch-off payments.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Titan Battery StorageGreen Switch Capital Limited | Battery | 500 MW |
Applied in 2025, still waiting for a decisionWho can move it: the Scottish Government (it decides big energy projects) |
| Philips Mains, Mey - Battery Energy StorageAmpeak Energy | Battery | 300 MW |
Approved less than a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company |
| Spittal Mains, Spittal - Battery Energy Storage SystField Spittal Limited | Battery | 300 MW |
Waiting 1.6 years for a planning decisionWho can move it: the Scottish Government (it decides big energy projects) |
What else is in the briefing
- All 87 projects, each with its planning reference and the organisation that holds the next decision
- Every approval a project still needs, and which of them the public can see
- What building them would mean here — community payments, business rates and construction work
- How Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross compares with its neighbouring constituencies
- Drafted parliamentary questions and letters, filled in with this seat's figures
- 3 story angles for local reporting
- A two-page PDF, and a newsroom edition with the references and who to call
No account needed for any of this:
the full seat page with every figure,
the method and sources,
and this constituency's raw data.
The account covers the packaged briefing only.