CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Na h-Eileanan an Iar
Na h-Eileanan an Iar has 254 MW of clean power (all onshore wind) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 222,000 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, £1.2m across the constituency's 12,717 homes. There is also 38 MW of wind running here on the local network. If that gets switched off, no national record shows it.
Ranks 14 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stornoway Wind Farm (second resubmission)EDF Renewables UK / ESB | Onshore wind | 171,000 homes 196 MW |
Approved 5 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company |
| Sandwick East Community Wind FarmAquatera | Onshore wind | 44,000 homes 50 MW |
Waiting 7.3 years for a planning decisionWho can move it: Na h-Eileanan Siar Council |
| Druim Leathann WindfarmBaywa R.E. UK Limited | Onshore wind | 42,000 homes 48 MW |
Cannot connect to the grid until 2027, 5 years after it was approvedWho can move it: the grid operator (NESO) and SSEN Transmission |
What else is in the briefing
- All 5 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 Na h-Eileanan an Iar 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.