Approved, not built Paid to switch off Batteries refused

Where wind farms are
paid not to generate

Only 19 constituencies have wind farms big enough to appear in the national balancing record. Offshore wind (£210m) is counted nationally, never per seat. Every other seat is 'not visible', not zero — 8.6 GW of wind runs on local networks whose switch-offs are never published.

Seats with visible switch-offs

£ paid for accepted wind turn-down · Elexon, 12 months to Jul 2026 · download CSV

#	Constituency	Paid to switch off	= local homes' power for	Sites
1	Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire	£41m	about 1.3 years	10
2	Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross	£36m	about 1.2 years	15
3	Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock	£18m	233 days	10
4	Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey	£17m	213 days	4
5	Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale	£15m	203 days	16
6	Orkney and Shetland	£15m	about 1.1 years	1
7	Dumfries and Galloway	£11m	132 days	6
8	Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk	£7.0m	85 days	3
9	East Renfrewshire	£4.6m	65 days	1
10	Angus and Perthshire Glens	£3.4m	41 days	1
11	Lothian East	£3.2m	43 days	2
12	East Kilbride and Strathaven	£3.1m	40 days	2
13	Motherwell, Wishaw and Carluke	£2.4m	30 days	3
14	Airdrie and Shotts	£2.3m	31 days	1
15	Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber	£1.7m	21 days	2
16	Kilmarnock and Loudoun	£900k	11 days	2
17	Aberafan Maesteg	£470k	6.4 days	1
18	Hamilton and Clyde Valley	£170k	2.1 days	1
19	Gordon and Buchan	£120k	39 hours	1

Where wind farms arepaid not to generate

Seats with visible switch-offs

Where wind farms are
paid not to generate