Perth and Kinross-shire
Perth and Kinross-shire has 43 MW of clean power (almost all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 17,000 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, £4.3m across the constituency's 47,153 homes. A 50 MW battery was refused planning here in 2025; 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shire-End Farm | Solar Photovoltaics | 6,200 homes | 17.0 MW | 2016-02 | 10.5 yrs |
| Standingfauld Farm, Muthill - Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | 5,100 homes | 14.0 MW | 2022-11 | 3.7 yrs |
| Binn Eco Park - Solar | Solar Photovoltaics | 1,800 homes | 5.0 MW | 2021-09 | 4.8 yrs |
| Simon Howie Butchers, Findony Farm - Wind Turbine | Wind Onshore | 2,000 homes | 2.3 MW | 2024-04 | 2.3 yrs |
| The James Hutton Institute - Solar PV Array | Solar Photovoltaics | 700 homes | 2.0 MW | 2022-01 | 4.5 yrs |
| Findony Farm, Dunning - Solar Array | Solar Photovoltaics | 700 homes | 2.0 MW | 2023-01 | 3.5 yrs |
| Pitheavlis - Wind Turbine | Wind Onshore | 900 homes | 1.0 MW | 2022-10 | 3.8 yrs |
| Waste Water Treatment Works, Almondbank - Pumping Station & Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | — | — MW | 2023-10 | 2.8 yrs |
Batteries
| Site | Size | Status | While discharging |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brunt Hill Wind Farm & Battery Storage | 50 MW | in planning | could supply ≈175,000 homes |
| Glentarken Wind Farm | 50 MW | in planning | could supply ≈175,000 homes |
| Old Gallows Road - Battery storage | 50 MW | approved, not built 2021 | could supply ≈175,000 homes |
| Newhouse Farm - Energy Storage Facility | 50 MW | approved, not built 2023 | could supply ≈175,000 homes |
| Newburgh Road, Abernethy - Battery Storage | 50 MW | approved, not built 2022 | could supply ≈175,000 homes |
| Dormitories Star Inn Farm, Mains Of Fowlis - Battery Energy Storage | 50 MW | approved, not built 2023 | could supply ≈175,000 homes |
| Taigh An Struith, Tibbermore - Battery Energy Storage | 50 MW | refused 2025 | could supply ≈175,000 homes |
| Newburgh Road, Abernethy - Battery Energy Storage Facility | 50 MW | approved, not built 2025 | could supply ≈175,000 homes |
| Jamesfield Garden Centre, Newburgh - Battery Energy Storage | 50 MW | in planning | could supply ≈175,000 homes |
| Jamesfield Organic Centre - Battery Storage | 49 MW | 2022 | could supply ≈172,000 homes |
| Cordon Farm, Abernethy - Battery Storage | 30 MW | in planning | could supply ≈105,000 homes |
| Newburgh Road, Abernethy - Energy Storage | 15 MW | approved, not built 2023 | could supply ≈53,000 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 Pete Wishart said about the grid in Parliament? Search Hansard →