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Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk
Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk was paid £7.0m last year to switch off its wind farms, because the wires south were full. That would cover every local household's electricity for 85 days. A further 85 MW of approved clean power (mostly onshore wind) is still waiting to be built here: enough to supply a year's electricity to 64,000 homes. A 50 MW battery approved at Keepers House, Byrecleugh in 2025 would store power that is currently wasted; it has not been built.
Ranks 75 of 650 for clean power approved and not built; 8 of 19 among seats with visible switch-off payments.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eccles II Substation - Battery Energy Storage SystemMatrix Renewables | Battery | 500 MW |
Under constructionWho can move it: the developer |
| Eccles Battery Energy Storage SystemZenobe Energy Limited | Battery | 400 MW |
Cannot connect to the grid until 2026, 3 years after it was approvedWho can move it: the grid operator (NESO) and SP Transmission |
| Teviot Wind FarmMuirhall Energy Limited | Onshore wind | 306,000 homes 350 MW |
Waiting 4.2 years for a planning decisionWho can move it: the Scottish Government (it decides big energy projects) |
What else is in the briefing
- All 37 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 Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk 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.