North East Fife
North East Fife has 21 MW of clean power (mostly onshore wind) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 14,000 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, £3.8m across the constituency's 40,975 homes.
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The waiting list
Every approved, unbuilt project
| Site | Technology | Enough for | Capacity | Approved | Waiting |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kenly Wind Farm | Wind Onshore | 11,000 homes | 12.3 MW | 2016-08 | 9.9 yrs |
| Banbeath Industrial Estate Solar Array | Solar Photovoltaics | 1,500 homes | 4.2 MW | 2022-09 | 3.8 yrs |
| Uthrogle Mills - Solar Farm | Solar Photovoltaics | 1,300 homes | 3.5 MW | 2023-08 | 3.0 yrs |
| Clayton Caravan Park , Clayton - Solar Panel Array | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.3 MW | 2024-01 | 2.5 yrs |
| Banbeath Industrial Estate | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.2 MW | 2020-04 | 6.3 yrs |
| Former Madras College, Kilrymont Road - Solar panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.2 MW | 2024-01 | 2.5 yrs |
Plus 2 more approved within the last two years.
Batteries
| Site | Size | Status | While discharging |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ferrymuir | 50 MW | being built 2020 | could supply ≈175,000 homes |
| Duniface Gas Peaking Plant - Battery Energy Storage System | 50 MW | approved, not built 2024 | could supply ≈175,000 homes |
| West Springfield Solar Farm - Solar Panels & BESS | 35 MW | in planning | could supply ≈123,000 homes |
| Fife Tractors, Drum Road - Battery Energy Storage | 12 MW | refused 2025 | could supply ≈44,000 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 Wendy Chamberlain said about the grid in Parliament? Search Hansard →