Aberdeenshire North and Moray East
Aberdeenshire North and Moray East has 215 MW of clean power (almost all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 88,000 homes. When the wires are too full to carry the power, Britain pays wind farms to switch off instead. No wind farm here is paid that way — almost all of it goes to wind farms in Scotland. That cost is shared across every bill in Britain, so households here pay for it too: about £92 a year per household, £4.2m across the constituency's 45,246 homes. There is also 121 MW of wind running here on the local network. If that gets switched off, no national record shows it. A 50 MW battery was refused planning here in 2025; while discharging it could have supplied about 175,000 homes.
Ranks 18 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Greystone, Blackhills - Battery Energy Storage SystePeterhead Flexpower | Battery | 500 MW |
Waiting 1.1 years for a planning decisionWho can move it: the Scottish Government (it decides big energy projects) |
| Netherton, Langside Road - Battery Energy Storage SyField Energy | Battery | 400 MW |
Applied in 2025, still waiting for a decisionWho can move it: the Scottish Government (it decides big energy projects) |
| Flushing, Longside - Battery Energy Storage SystemHarmony Energy Storage | Battery | 400 MW |
Waiting 1.1 years for a planning decisionWho can move it: the Scottish Government (it decides big energy projects) |
What else is in the briefing
- All 38 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 Aberdeenshire North and Moray East 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