CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock
Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock was paid £18m last year to switch off its wind farms, because the wires south were full. That would cover every local household's electricity for 233 days. A further 654 MW of approved clean power (almost all onshore wind) is still waiting to be built here: enough to supply a year's electricity to 571,000 homes. A 500 MW battery approved at Braston New Energy in 2025 would store power that is currently wasted; it has not been built. A 25 MW battery was refused planning here in 2023; while discharging it could have supplied about 88,000 homes.
Ranks 3 of 650 for clean power approved and not built; 3 of 19 among seats with visible switch-off payments.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Braston New EnergyNew Energy Partnership | Battery | 500 MW |
Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company |
| North Kyle Energy ProjectBrockwell Energy | Onshore wind | 180,000 homes 206 MW |
Under constructionWho can move it: the developer |
| Lethans Wind FarmOnPath Energy Limited | Onshore wind | 92,000 homes 106 MW |
Approved 5 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company |
What else is in the briefing
- All 46 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 Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock 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.