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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.
Ranks 373 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Downiebrae Road, Rutherglen - Battery Energy StorageBattery Box Limited | Battery | 150 MW |
Approved less than a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company |
| Seath Road, Rutherglen - Battery StorageGreen Power Consultants | Battery | 50 MW |
Refused by South Lanarkshire Council in 2024Who can move it: South Lanarkshire Council |
| Dalmarnock Road - Battery StorageEcoDev Group Limited | Battery | 40 MW |
Cleared the grid queue review, so it now has a firm connection dateWho can move it: the grid operator (NESO) |
What else is in the briefing
- All 4 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 Rutherglen 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.