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.
Ranks 122 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Glenside Farm - Battery StorageApatura | Battery | 400 MW |
Cannot connect to the grid until 2031, 6 years after it was approvedWho can move it: the grid operator (NESO) and SP Transmission |
| Shindour, Feddal Hill Wood - Battery Energy Storage Whirlwind Energy Storage Limited | Battery | 50 MW |
Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company |
| Shindour - Energy Storage FacilityGigabox Developments Limited | Battery | 50 MW |
Approved 5 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company |
What else is in the briefing
- All 14 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 Stirling and Strathallan 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