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.
Ranks 154 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brunt Hill Wind Farm & Battery StorageE Power Limited | Onshore wind | 113,000 homes 130 MW |
Waiting 2.2 years for a planning decisionWho can move it: the Scottish Government (it decides big energy projects) |
| Glentarken Wind FarmSSE Renewables Wind Farms UK Ltd | Onshore wind | 91,000 homes 104 MW |
Waiting 1.5 years for a planning decisionWho can move it: the Scottish Government (it decides big energy projects) |
| Dupplin Solar - Solar ArrayBLC Energy | Solar | 35,000 homes 98 MW |
Applied in 2026, still waiting for a decisionWho can move it: the Scottish Government (it decides big energy projects) |
What else is in the briefing
- All 27 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 Perth and Kinross-shire 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