CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine
West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine has 211 MW of clean power (almost all onshore wind) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 170,000 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, £3.8m across the constituency's 41,681 homes. There is also 217 MW of wind running here on the local network. If that gets switched off, no national record shows it.
Ranks 19 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hill of Fare - Hill of Fare Wind Farm & Battery StorRES Limited | Onshore wind | 92,000 homes 106 MW |
Waiting 2.7 years for a planning decisionWho can move it: the Scottish Government (it decides big energy projects) |
| Glendye EstateCoriolis Energy/ ESB | Onshore wind | 91,000 homes 104 MW |
Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company |
| Hill of Fare - Hill of Fare Wind Farm & Battery StorRES Limited | Battery | 100 MW |
Waiting 2.7 years for a planning decisionWho can move it: the Scottish Government (it decides big energy projects) |
What else is in the briefing
- All 19 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 West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine 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.