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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.
Ranks 66 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| East Fulwood Energy StorageLightsourcebp | Battery | 400 MW |
Applied in 2026, still waiting for a decisionWho can move it: the Scottish Government (it decides big energy projects) |
| Artfield Forest Wind FarmStatkraft UK | Onshore wind | 59,000 homes 67 MW |
Cannot connect to the grid until 2030, 7 years after it was approvedWho can move it: the grid operator (NESO) and SP Transmission |
| Barnwell, Wright Street - Battery Energy StorageP3P Partners Llp | Battery | 50 MW |
Refused by Renfrewshire Council in 2024Who can move it: Renfrewshire Council |
What else is in the briefing
- All 7 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 Paisley and Renfrewshire North 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.