Arbroath and Broughty Ferry
Arbroath and Broughty Ferry has 96 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 35,000 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 45,808 homes. A 50 MW battery was refused planning here in 2025; while discharging it could have supplied about 175,000 homes.
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The waiting list
Every approved, unbuilt project
| Site | Technology | Enough for | Capacity | Approved | Waiting |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Montreathmont Moor Forest - Solar Farm & Battery Storage | Solar Photovoltaics | 15,000 homes | 42.0 MW | 2022-12 | 3.6 yrs |
| Wellbank - Solar Farm | Solar Photovoltaics | 9,100 homes | 25.0 MW | 2024-02 | 2.5 yrs |
| Parkhill Farm, Letham Grange - Solar Farm | Solar Photovoltaics | 6,500 homes | 18.0 MW | 2023-12 | 2.6 yrs |
| Kinnell Farm, Kinnell - Solar Farm & Battery Energy Storage | Solar Photovoltaics | 3,600 homes | 10.0 MW | 2023-11 | 2.7 yrs |
| Leisure Centre, Ethiebeaton Park - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.4 MW | 2024-02 | 2.5 yrs |
| Sir William Smith Road, Kirkton Industrial Estate - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.3 MW | 2023-06 | 3.1 yrs |
| Police Station, Balunie Drive - Solar PV Array | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.2 MW | 2023-01 | 3.5 yrs |
Plus 4 more approved within the last two years.
Batteries
| Site | Size | Status | While discharging |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tealing Battery Energy Storage Farm | 80 MW | approved, not built 2023 | could supply ≈280,000 homes |
| Bankhead, Arbirlot - Battery Energy Storage | 50 MW | approved, not built 2024 | could supply ≈175,000 homes |
| Bindwells Battery Storage Facility | 50 MW | approved, not built 2026 | could supply ≈175,000 homes |
| Pitkerro Road - Battery Energy Storage | 50 MW | refused 2025 | could supply ≈175,000 homes |
| Arbroath Battery Storage | 35 MW | 2019 | could supply ≈123,000 homes |
| Denfield Farm | 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 →
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