Stirling and Strathallan
Stirling and Strathallan has 52 MW of clean power (almost all onshore wind) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 42,000 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, £4.1m across the constituency's 44,517 homes. There is also 187 MW of wind running here on the local network. If that gets switched off, no national record shows it.
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The waiting list
Every approved, unbuilt project
| Site | Technology | Enough for | Capacity | Approved | Waiting |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shelloch Wind Farm | Wind Onshore | 21,000 homes | 24.0 MW | 2022-02 | 4.5 yrs |
| Strathallan Wind Farm | Wind Onshore | 18,000 homes | 20.7 MW | 2019-01 | 7.5 yrs |
| Rowan Gate - Solar Farm | Solar Photovoltaics | 2,500 homes | 7.0 MW | 2022-07 | 4.1 yrs |
| Airthrey Road - PV Solar Panels | Solar Photovoltaics | — | — MW | 2022-02 | 4.5 yrs |
Plus 6 more approved within the last two years.
Batteries
| Site | Size | Status | While discharging |
|---|---|---|---|
| Glenside Farm - Battery Storage | 400 MW | approved, not built 2025 | could supply ≈1,402,000 homes |
| Shindour, Feddal Hill Wood - Battery Energy Storage Facility | 50 MW | approved, not built 2024 | could supply ≈175,000 homes |
| Shindour - Energy Storage Facility | 50 MW | approved, not built 2021 | could supply ≈175,000 homes |
| Killin Switching Station, Boreland - Boreland Energy Storage Park | 43 MW | approved, not built 2025 | could supply ≈151,000 homes |
| Earlsburn Avenue - Earlsburn Wind Farm Extension | 18 MW | approved, not built 2025 | could supply ≈63,000 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 Chris Kane said about the grid in Parliament? Search Hansard →