Bathgate and Linlithgow
Bathgate and Linlithgow has 46 MW of clean power (mostly solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 24,000 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, £3.9m across the constituency's 42,817 homes.
Ranks 150 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pond Industrial Park, Whitburn Road - Pond Battery StorageBanks Renewables | Battery | 200 MW | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref ECU00004765 |
| Middlerigg - Battery Energy StorageGalileo Green Energy Scotland Limited | Battery | 50 MW | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 0890/FUL/24 |
| Duddingston Solar Farm and Battery StorageAithrie Net Zero Solar Limited | Solar | 30 MW11,000 homes | Approved 2 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 1016/FUL/23 |
| Trinlaymire Farm - Solar farm, Battery storageTrinlaymire Net Zero Solar Limited | Solar | 30 MW11,000 homes | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 0568/FUL/24 |
| Duddingston Solar Farm and Battery StorageAithrie Net Zero Solar Limited | Battery | 20 MW | Approved 2 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 1016/FUL/23 |
| Heights Road, Blackridge - Woodend Wind FarmWind Estate (UK) Ltd | Onshore wind | 20 MW17,000 homes | Waiting 3.1 years for a planning decisionWho can move it: West Lothian Council · planning ref 0434/FUL/23 |
| Drumduff Wind Farm ExtensionGreen Power (International) Limited | Onshore wind | 15 MW13,000 homes | Approved 2 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 0504/FUL/23 |
Plus 2 smaller projects — see the full seat page.
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bathgate and Linlithgow | 46 MW | 9.8 MW | not visible |
| Livingston | 118 MW | 116 MW | not visible |
| Airdrie and Shotts | 24 MW | 82 MW | £2.3m |
| Falkirk | 7.5 MW | 26 MW | not visible |
| Edinburgh West | 12 MW | 0.2 MW | not visible |
| Alloa and Grangemouth | 1.7 MW | 66 MW | not visible |
Livingston next door has 118 MW waiting, more than Bathgate and Linlithgow's 46 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.