CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Dumfries and Galloway
Dumfries and Galloway was paid £11m last year to switch off its wind farms, because the wires south were full. That would cover every local household's electricity for 132 days. A further 560 MW of approved clean power (almost all onshore wind) is still waiting to be built here: enough to supply a year's electricity to 488,000 homes. A 40 MW battery approved at Kellwood Road in 2025 would store power that is currently wasted; it has not been built.
Ranks 7 of 650 for clean power approved and not built; 7 of 19 among seats with visible switch-off payments.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blair Hill Wind FarmRES Limited | Onshore wind | 127,000 homes 145 MW |
Waiting 1.4 years for a planning decisionWho can move it: the Scottish Government (it decides big energy projects) |
| Mid Moile Wind FarmEnergieKontor UK Limited | Onshore wind | 87,000 homes 99 MW |
Cannot connect to the grid until 2031, 6 years after it was approvedWho can move it: the grid operator (NESO) and SP Transmission |
| Quantans Hill Wind FarmVattenfall Wind Power Limited | Onshore wind | 84,000 homes 96 MW |
Waiting 3.5 years for a planning decisionWho can move it: the Scottish Government (it decides big energy projects) |
What else is in the briefing
- All 43 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 Dumfries and Galloway 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.