CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
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.
Ranks 70 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tealing Solar Energy Park - Phase 2Sirius EcoDev Limited | Solar | 40,000 homes 110 MW |
Cannot connect to the grid until 2027, 2 years after it was approvedWho can move it: the grid operator (NESO) and SSEN Transmission |
| Tealing Battery Energy Storage FarmSirius EcoDev Limited | Battery | 80 MW |
Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company |
| Bankhead, Arbirlot - Battery Energy StorageEcocel Energy Storage Limited | Battery | 50 MW |
Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company |
What else is in the briefing
- All 15 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 Arbroath and Broughty Ferry 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.