CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Midlothian
Midlothian has 4.2 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 1,500 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.8m across the constituency's 41,009 homes.
Ranks 275 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Salters Battery Energy Storage SystemBuccleuch Group | Battery | 200 MW |
Cannot connect to the grid until 2031, 6 years after it was approvedWho can move it: the grid operator (NESO) and SP Transmission |
| Penicuik, Moorfoot Hills - Torfichen Wind FarmRES Limited | Onshore wind | 94,000 homes 108 MW |
Waiting 2.7 years for a planning decisionWho can move it: the Scottish Government (it decides big energy projects) |
| Penicuik, Moorfoot Hills - Torfichen Wind FarmRES Limited | Battery | 50 MW |
Waiting 2.7 years for a planning decisionWho can move it: the Scottish Government (it decides big energy projects) |
What else is in the briefing
- All 4 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 Midlothian compares with its neighbouring constituencies
- Drafted parliamentary questions and letters, filled in with this seat's figures
- 2 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.