CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Aberdeen North
Aberdeen North has no significant clean power approved and waiting to be built, and none running. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £4.9m across the constituency's 53,821 homes. A 50 MW battery was refused planning here in 2025; while discharging it could have supplied about 175,000 homes.
Ranks 546 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lower Bodachra - Solar PanelsNovus Renewables Services Limited | Solar | 26,000 homes 72 MW |
Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company |
| Persley BESS - Battery StorageAnesco | Battery | 70 MW |
Cleared the grid queue review, so it now has a firm connection dateWho can move it: the grid operator (NESO) |
| Persley Croft - Battery StorageRE Projects Development | Battery | 50 MW |
Cleared the grid queue review, so it now has a firm connection dateWho can move it: the grid operator (NESO) |
What else is in the briefing
- All 6 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 Aberdeen North 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.