Glenrothes and Mid Fife
Glenrothes and Mid Fife has 121 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 44,000 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, £3.9m across the constituency's 42,861 homes. There is also 38 MW of wind running here on the local network. If that gets switched off, no national record shows it.
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The waiting list
Every approved, unbuilt project
| Site | Technology | Enough for | Capacity | Approved | Waiting |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wemyss Estate - Randolph Solar Farm & Battery Energy Storage | Solar Photovoltaics | 18,000 homes | 50.0 MW | 2022-05 | 4.2 yrs |
| Westfield Solar Farm & Battery | Solar Photovoltaics | 11,000 homes | 30.0 MW | 2021-02 | 5.5 yrs |
| Strathruddie, Kinglassie - Solar farm | Solar Photovoltaics | 9,100 homes | 25.0 MW | 2022-03 | 4.4 yrs |
| Land North of Balbeggie Avenue | Solar Photovoltaics | 4,400 homes | 12.0 MW | 2016-03 | 10.3 yrs |
| Flexcon, Whitworth Road - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 500 homes | 1.5 MW | 2023-10 | 2.8 yrs |
| Leviton, Viewfield Industrial Estate - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 400 homes | 1.0 MW | 2022-11 | 3.7 yrs |
| Elmpark Sawmill, Leven Mills - Solar PV Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 300 homes | 0.9 MW | 2024-01 | 2.5 yrs |
| Donaldson Timber Engineering, Muiredge Industrial Estate - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.2 MW | 2024-01 | 2.5 yrs |
| Flexel International, Telford Road - Solar Array | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.2 MW | 2023-06 | 3.2 yrs |
| Police scotland, Detroit Road - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.1 MW | 2023-03 | 3.4 yrs |
Plus 1 more approved within the last two years.
Batteries
| Site | Size | Status | While discharging |
|---|---|---|---|
| Former Fife Power Station - Battery Energy Storage System | 100 MW | in planning | could supply ≈350,000 homes |
| Roaring Hill, Whinnyknowe - Battery Energy Storage System | 60 MW | in planning | could supply ≈210,000 homes |
| Wester Balbeggie Farm, Balbeggie Avenue - Battery Storage | 49 MW | approved, not built 2023 | could supply ≈172,000 homes |
| Ballingall Farm, Leslie - Battery Energy Storage System | 43 MW | approved, not built 2023 | could supply ≈151,000 homes |
| Wemyss Estate - Randolph Solar Farm & Battery Energy Storage | 25 MW | approved, not built 2022 | could supply ≈88,000 homes |
| Strathruddie, Kinglassie - Solar farm | 20 MW | approved, not built 2022 | could supply ≈70,000 homes |
| Westfield Solar Farm & Battery | 20 MW | approved, not built 2021 | could supply ≈70,000 homes |
| Land North of Thornton Road | 20 MW | approved, not built 2016 | could supply ≈70,000 homes |
| Balsillie Avenue - Roaring Hill Energy Storage Facility | 20 MW | being built 2021 | 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 →
What has Richard Baker said about the grid in Parliament? Search Hansard →