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No.373 of 650 · approved, not built MP: Michael Shanks (Labour) Scotland

Rutherglen

Rutherglen has 1.5 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 500 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.9m across the constituency's 42,600 homes. A 50 MW battery was refused planning here in 2024; while discharging it could have supplied about 175,000 homes.

Not visible
here
No big wind farm on the national grid is mapped to this constituency, so no switch-off payments show here in national data. Smaller wind farms on the local grid can still be paid to switch off — invisibly. The £ figure for this seat is a floor, not a zero.
how we worked this out
1.5 MW
of clean power — all solar — approved and still not built, enough to supply a year's electricity to 500 homes. Approved at least two years ago; waiting on the grid, not on planning.
4 projects · planning database (REPD), July 2026 · how we worked this out
£3.9m
is what the grid gap costs this constituency's 42,600 households in a year between them — £92 each, about 51 days of one home's electricity.
The £92 per household is a national figure — identical in every GB seat. Only the seat total varies, with the number of households · NESO · how we worked this out

The waiting list

4 of 4 waiting projects · years since approval
Cunninghame Road, Farm Castle Industrial Estate - Solar Panels 0.2 MW
3.9 YRS
Glasgow Road, Blantyre - Solar Panels 0.4 MW
3.5 YRS
Clyde Avenue, Bothwell - Solar Array 0.7 MW
3.4 YRS
Westburn Drive, Cambuslang - Solar Array 0.3 MW
3.0 YRS

Every approved, unbuilt project

approved 24+ months ago, still not generating · planning database, July 2026
SiteTechnologyEnough forCapacityApprovedWaiting
Clyde Avenue, Bothwell - Solar ArraySolar Photovoltaics200 homes0.7 MW2023-033.4 yrs
Glasgow Road, Blantyre - Solar PanelsSolar Photovoltaics100 homes0.4 MW2023-023.5 yrs
Westburn Drive, Cambuslang - Solar ArraySolar Photovoltaics100 homes0.3 MW2023-083.0 yrs
Cunninghame Road, Farm Castle Industrial Estate - Solar PanelsSolar Photovoltaics100 homes0.2 MW2022-093.9 yrs

Plus 1 more approved within the last two years.

Batteries

projects of 10 MW and above · planning database, July 2026 · what batteries do →
SiteSizeStatusWhile discharging
Downiebrae Road, Rutherglen - Battery Energy Storage System150 MWapproved, not built 2025could supply ≈526,000 homes
Seath Road, Rutherglen - Battery Storage50 MWrefused 2024could supply ≈175,000 homes
Malcolmwood Farm, Loanend Road - Battery Energy Storage System50 MWin planningcould supply ≈173,000 homes
Dalmarnock Road - Battery Storage40 MWapproved, not built 2022could supply ≈140,000 homes
Newton Farm, Westburn Road - Battery Storage Facility40 MWrefused 2026could supply ≈140,000 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 →

Read the full method, including everything we cannot see →

What has Michael Shanks said about the grid in Parliament? Search Hansard →

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