CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Alloa and Grangemouth
Alloa and Grangemouth has 1.7 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 600 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, £4.0m across the constituency's 43,681 homes. There is also 61 MW of wind running here on the local network. If that gets switched off, no national record shows it.
Ranks 357 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Devilla Energy Storage FacilityAlcemi Storage Development Limited | Battery | 500 MW |
Cleared the grid queue review, so it now has a firm connection dateWho can move it: the grid operator (NESO) |
| BOC Limited, Wholeflats Road - Green Hydrogen ElectrRWE Generation UK Plc | Hydrogen | 200 MW |
Applied in 2025, still waiting for a decisionWho can move it: Falkirk Council |
| Windburn Wind FarmOctopus Energy / Wind 2 Limited | Onshore wind | 57,000 homes 65 MW |
Waiting 1.2 years for a planning decisionWho can move it: the Scottish Government (it decides big energy projects) |
What else is in the briefing
- All 7 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 Alloa and Grangemouth 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.