Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk
Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk was paid £7.0m last year to switch off its wind farms, because the wires south were full. That would cover every local household's electricity for 85 days. A further 85 MW of approved clean power (mostly onshore wind) is still waiting to be built here: enough to supply a year's electricity to 64,000 homes. A 50 MW battery approved at Keepers House, Byrecleugh in 2025 would store power that is currently wasted; it has not been built.
Ranks 75 of 650 for clean power approved and not built; 8 of 19 among seats with visible switch-off payments.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eccles II Substation - Battery Energy Storage SystemMatrix Renewables | Battery | 500 MW | Under constructionWho can move it: the developer · earliest connection 2027 (in construction) · planning ref ECU00004804 |
| Eccles Battery Energy Storage SystemZenobe Energy Limited | Battery | 400 MW | Cannot connect to the grid until 2026, 3 years after it was approvedWho can move it: the grid operator (NESO) and SP Transmission · earliest connection 2026 · planning ref ECU00004601 |
| Teviot Wind FarmMuirhall Energy Limited | Onshore wind | 350 MW306,000 homes | Waiting 4.2 years for a planning decisionWho can move it: the Scottish Government (it decides big energy projects) · planning ref ECU00003249 |
| Pittlesheugh Farm Bess, Springwells Farmhouse - Battery Energy StorageThe Energy Workshop | Battery | 340 MW | Waiting 2.3 years for a planning decisionWho can move it: the Scottish Government (it decides big energy projects) · planning ref ECU00004872 |
| Bowshiel Farm - Solar FarmVoltalia UK | Solar | 165 MW60,000 homes | Waiting 14 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: the Scottish Government (it decides big energy projects) · planning ref ECU00005085 |
| Bishops Dal - Battery Energy Storage SystemRenewable Energy Systems RES Limited (Beaufort) | Battery | 150 MW | Waiting 17 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: the Scottish Government (it decides big energy projects) · earliest connection 2030 · planning ref ECU00005049 |
| Longcroft Wind FarmRenewable Energy Systems | Onshore wind | 125 MW110,000 homes | Waiting 2.8 years for a planning decisionWho can move it: the Scottish Government (it decides big energy projects) · planning ref ECU00004774 |
| Dunside Wind FarmEDF Energy | Onshore wind | 108 MW94,000 homes | Approved less than a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref ECU00003436 |
| Teviot Wind FarmMuirhall Energy Limited | Battery | 100 MW | Waiting 4.2 years for a planning decisionWho can move it: the Scottish Government (it decides big energy projects) · planning ref ECU00003249 |
| Mid Hill Wind FarmInvenergy Services UK | Onshore wind | 94 MW82,000 homes | Applied in 2025, still waiting for a decisionWho can move it: the Scottish Government (it decides big energy projects) · planning ref ECU00005192 |
| Bowshiel Farm - Battery Energy StorageVoltalia UK | Battery | 80 MW | Waiting 14 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: the Scottish Government (it decides big energy projects) · planning ref ECU00005085 |
| Chesters - Millmoor Rig Wind Farm & Battery Energy StorageESB Asset Development UK Ltd | Onshore wind | 78 MW68,000 homes | Waiting 3.7 years for a planning decisionWho can move it: the Scottish Government (it decides big energy projects) · planning ref ECU00003426 |
Plus 25 smaller projects — see the full seat page.
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk | 85 MW | 685 MW | £7.0m |
| Hexham | 23 MW | 56 MW | not visible |
| Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale | 913 MW | 1,451 MW | £15m |
| Midlothian | 4.2 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Carlisle | 70 MW | 49 MW | not visible |
| Lothian East | 0.4 MW | 216 MW | £3.2m |
Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale next door has 913 MW waiting, more than Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk's 85 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.