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Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale
Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale was paid £15m last year to switch off its wind farms, because the wires south were full. That would cover every local household's electricity for 203 days. A further 913 MW of approved clean power (almost all onshore wind) is still waiting to be built here: enough to supply a year's electricity to 773,000 homes. A 500 MW battery approved at Redshaw Battery Energy Storage in 2025 would store power that is currently wasted; it has not been built. A 200 MW battery was refused planning here in 2026; while discharging it could have supplied about 701,000 homes.
Ranks 2 of 650 for clean power approved and not built; 5 of 19 among seats with visible switch-off payments.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coalburn II Energy Storage Facility - Battery StoragAlcemi Storage Development Limited | Battery | 1,000 MW |
Under constructionWho can move it: the developer |
| High Netherfauld House Farm 1, Tower Road - Battery ESB (Harker) Limited | Battery | 502 MW |
Waiting 1.2 years for a planning decisionWho can move it: the Scottish Government (it decides big energy projects) |
| Redshaw Battery Energy StorageBayWa r.e. UK Limited | Battery | 500 MW |
Still in the grid queue review — no firm connection date yetWho can move it: the grid operator (NESO) |
What else is in the briefing
- All 82 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 Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale 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.