Paisley and Renfrewshire North
Paisley and Renfrewshire North has 102 MW of clean power (mostly onshore wind) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 72,000 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, £4.0m across the constituency's 43,222 homes. A 50 MW battery was refused planning here in 2024; while discharging it could have supplied about 175,000 homes.
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The waiting list
Every approved, unbuilt project
| Site | Technology | Enough for | Capacity | Approved | Waiting |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Artfield Forest Wind Farm | Wind Onshore | 59,000 homes | 67.2 MW | 2023-02 | 3.5 yrs |
| Glasgow Airport Solar Farm | Solar Photovoltaics | 7,200 homes | 19.9 MW | 2023-04 | 3.3 yrs |
| East Fulwood Greenock Road - Solar Farm | Solar Photovoltaics | 5,200 homes | 14.3 MW | 2023-01 | 3.5 yrs |
| Fifty Pitches Place - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 200 homes | 0.5 MW | 2023-12 | 2.7 yrs |
| Cartside Avenue, Inchinnan - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.2 MW | 2023-02 | 3.5 yrs |
| Cpi Medicines Manufacturing Centre, Netherton Square - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.2 MW | 2024-01 | 2.5 yrs |
| Decathlon, Old Govan Road - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 100 homes | 0.2 MW | 2024-03 | 2.4 yrs |
Batteries
| Site | Size | Status | While discharging |
|---|---|---|---|
| East Fulwood Energy Storage | 400 MW | in planning | could supply ≈1,402,000 homes |
| Barnwell, Wright Street - Battery Energy Storage | 50 MW | refused 2024 | could supply ≈175,000 homes |
| Laigh Park Water Treatment Works - Battery Energy Storage System | 50 MW | in planning | could supply ≈173,000 homes |
| Land SW of Shilton Cottage | 30 MW | could supply ≈105,000 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 Alison Taylor said about the grid in Parliament? Search Hansard →