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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.
Ranks 196 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| FerrymuirGore Street Energy Storage Fund | Battery | 50 MW |
Cannot connect to the grid until 2022, 2 years after it was approvedWho can move it: the grid operator (NESO) and SP Transmission |
| Duniface Gas Peaking Plant - Battery Energy Storage Forsa Energy Gas Holdings Limited | Battery | 50 MW |
Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company |
| West Springfield Solar Farm - Solar Panels & BESSBLC Energy | Solar | 18,000 homes 50 MW |
Waiting 1.3 years for a planning decisionWho can move it: the Scottish Government (it decides big energy projects) |
What else is in the briefing
- All 9 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 East Fife 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.