CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
North Ayrshire and Arran
North Ayrshire and Arran has 74 MW of clean power (mostly solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 33,000 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, £4.1m across the constituency's 44,516 homes. There is also 100 MW of wind running here on the local network. If that gets switched off, no national record shows it.
Ranks 92 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hunterston Grid Services Complex - Energy Storage FaAmp Energy | Battery | 400 MW |
Approved 5 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company |
| Flemyland Battery StorageFlemyland Battery Storage Limited | Battery | 100 MW |
Cleared the grid queue review, so it now has a firm connection dateWho can move it: the grid operator (NESO) |
| High Boydstone Farm - Battery Energy Storage FacilitNew Energy Partnership | Battery | 100 MW |
Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company |
What else is in the briefing
- All 18 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 North Ayrshire and Arran 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.