Alloa and Grangemouth
Alloa and Grangemouth has 1.7 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 600 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, £4.0m across the constituency's 43,681 homes. There is also 61 MW of wind running here on the local network. If that gets switched off, no national record shows it.
Ranks 357 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Devilla Energy Storage FacilityAlcemi Storage Development Limited | Battery | 500 MW | Cleared the grid queue review, so it now has a firm connection dateWho can move it: the grid operator (NESO) · earliest connection 2027 · planning ref ECU00003469 |
| BOC Limited, Wholeflats Road - Green Hydrogen Electrolyser PlantRWE Generation UK Plc | Hydrogen | 200 MW | Applied in 2025, still waiting for a decisionWho can move it: Falkirk Council · planning ref P/25/0544/PPP |
| Windburn Wind FarmOctopus Energy / Wind 2 Limited | Onshore wind | 65 MW57,000 homes | Waiting 14 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: the Scottish Government (it decides big energy projects) · earliest connection 2034 · planning ref ECU00004782 |
| Windburn Wind FarmOctopus Energy / Wind 2 Limited | Battery | 35 MW | Waiting 14 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: the Scottish Government (it decides big energy projects) · planning ref ECU00004782 |
| Bankhead Farm - Energy Storage SystemLow Carbon Storage | Battery | 25 MW | Cannot connect to the grid until 2030, 6 years after it was approvedWho can move it: the grid operator (NESO) and SP Transmission · earliest connection 2030 · planning ref 24/00001/FULL |
| Caledon Green - Gas Powered Electricity Generation FacilityClaverhouse Generation Limited | Landfill Gas | 22 MW | Approved 5 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref P/21/0062/FUL |
| CalaChem Fine Chemicals (Grangemouth)Earls Gate Energy Centre | EfW Incineration | 22 MW | Under constructionWho can move it: the developer · earliest connection 2027 (in construction) · planning ref P/16/0321/FUL |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alloa and Grangemouth | 1.7 MW | 66 MW | not visible |
| Bathgate and Linlithgow | 46 MW | 9.8 MW | not visible |
| Falkirk | 7.5 MW | 26 MW | not visible |
| Stirling and Strathallan | 52 MW | 193 MW | not visible |
| Dunfermline and Dollar | 36 MW | 5.1 MW | not visible |
Stirling and Strathallan next door has 52 MW waiting, more than Alloa and Grangemouth's 1.7 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.