Aberdeen South
Aberdeen South has 4.2 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 1,500 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £5.1m across the constituency's 55,629 homes.
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The waiting list
Every approved, unbuilt project
| Site | Technology | Enough for | Capacity | Approved | Waiting |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nigg Waste Water Plant, Coast Road - Solar PV Arrays | Solar Photovoltaics | 400 homes | 1.1 MW | 2023-09 | 2.9 yrs |
| Airyhall Distribution Service Reservoir, St Johns Terrace - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 400 homes | 1.1 MW | 2023-09 | 2.9 yrs |
| Pitfodels House, North Deeside Road - Solar panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 200 homes | 0.6 MW | 2024-01 | 2.6 yrs |
| David Lloyd, Garthdee Road - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.3 MW | 2024-05 | 2.2 yrs |
| North East Scotland College - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.3 MW | 2022-03 | 4.4 yrs |
| Joseph Robertson Limited, Sinclair Road - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.3 MW | 2023-06 | 3.2 yrs |
| First Aberdeen, King Street - Solar Array | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.2 MW | 2023-04 | 3.3 yrs |
| North East Scotland College - Solar panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.2 MW | 2022-03 | 4.4 yrs |
| Ithaca Energy, Hill Of Rubislaw - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.2 MW | 2022-09 | 3.9 yrs |
| Peterseat Drive - Solar PV Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | — | — MW | 2022-01 | 4.6 yrs |
Plus 1 more approved within the last two years.
Batteries
| Site | Size | Status | While discharging |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rigifa Cove Road - Battery Storage | 50 MW | approved, not built 2024 | could supply ≈175,000 homes |
| Newton Of Pitfodels - Battery Storage | 40 MW | approved, not built 2025 | could supply ≈140,000 homes |
| A981 Fraserburgh - Battery Energy Storage | 25 MW | approved, not built 2022 | could supply ≈88,000 homes |
| Craigshaw Drive - Battery Storage Facility & Electric Vehicle Charging Hub | 20 MW | approved, not built 2024 | could supply ≈70,000 homes |
What this page does not show
Smaller wind farms on the local grid are also switched off; national data does not show it, so the £ figure here is a floor, not a zero. Offshore wind is counted nationally, never per seat. The planning database can run a quarter behind reality.
Electricity does not travel from a particular project to particular houses. Everything generated goes into the national grid and everyone draws from that shared pool, so "enough for X homes" is a way of sizing the electricity — not a claim that these homes would be powered by this site. Battery storage is counted separately from generation: it moves power in time rather than making it.
Planning statuses come from the government's planning database (REPD), which records what was decided and when, but not why. Where a project was refused we say so and name the authority; for the reasons, look up the planning reference on that council's own register. How to check any figure on this page →
What has Douglas Lumsden said about the grid in Parliament? Search Hansard →