Aberdeenshire North and Moray East
Aberdeenshire North and Moray East has 215 MW of clean power (almost all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 88,000 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, £4.2m across the constituency's 45,246 homes. There is also 121 MW of wind running here on the local network. If that gets switched off, no national record shows it.
Ranks 18 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Greystone, Blackhills - Battery Energy Storage SystemPeterhead Flexpower | Battery | 500 MW | Waiting 13 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: the Scottish Government (it decides big energy projects) · planning ref ECU00006204 |
| Flushing, Longside - Battery Energy Storage SystemHarmony Energy Storage | Battery | 400 MW | Waiting 13 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: the Scottish Government (it decides big energy projects) · planning ref ECU00006086 |
| Netherton, Langside Road - Battery Energy Storage SystemField Energy | Battery | 400 MW | Applied in 2025, still waiting for a decisionWho can move it: the Scottish Government (it decides big energy projects) · planning ref ECU00006137 |
| Gibson Farm, Blackhillock - Battery Energy Storage SystemNoriker Power Limited | Battery | 349 MW | Approved less than a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref ECU00005237 |
| Blackhillock Electricity Substation - Battery Energy Storage SystemZenobe Energy Limited | Battery | 300 MW | Under constructionWho can move it: the developer · earliest connection 2027 (in construction) · planning ref ECU00003404 |
| Salamander Offshore Wind Farm - Battery Storage and Onshore ConnectionOrsted / Simply Blue Group | Battery | 180 MW | Approved less than a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref ECU00005201 |
| Aultmore Forest - Buckie - WindfarmVattenfall | Onshore wind | 106 MW92,000 homes | Waiting 2.4 years for a planning decisionWho can move it: the Scottish Government (it decides big energy projects) · planning ref ECU00003365 |
| Frodo Solar and Battery Energy DevelopmentGreen Energy International | Solar | 60 MW22,000 homes | Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref ECU00003345 |
| Greenbank Caravan & Trailers, Hillhead Of Phingask - Battery StorageFlexion Energy UK Storage | Battery | 50 MW | Approved 4 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref APP/2022/1988 |
| Fraserburgh Road - Kirkton Solar PV Farm & Energy Storage FacilityElgin Energy Es Co Limited | Solar | 50 MW18,000 homes | Approved 4 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref ECU00003226 |
| Frodo Solar and Battery Energy DevelopmentGreen Energy International | Battery | 50 MW | Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref ECU00003345 |
| Electricity Sub Station, Strichen - Battery Storage FacilityIntelligent Land Investments Group plc | Battery | 50 MW | Approved 4 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref APP/2021/2556 |
Plus 26 smaller projects — see the full seat page.
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aberdeenshire North and Moray East | 215 MW | 122 MW | not visible |
| Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey | 642 MW | 525 MW | £17m |
| Gordon and Buchan | 107 MW | 187 MW | £120k |
Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey next door has 642 MW waiting, more than Aberdeenshire North and Moray East's 215 MW.
The rest of the briefing
- Every approval each project still needs, and which of them the public can see
- What building them would mean here — community payments, business rates and construction work
- 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
Everything above needs no account, and neither does the full seat page, the method or this constituency's raw data. The account covers the packaged briefing and its PDF, and nothing else.