Central Ayrshire
Central Ayrshire has 51 MW of clean power (almost all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 20,000 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, £3.8m across the constituency's 41,117 homes.
Ranks 129 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Camsiscan Farm, Craigie - Battery Energy Storage SystemNoriker Power Limited | Battery | 350 MW | Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref ECU00004658 |
| Belston Battery StorageKX Alpha Ltd | Battery | 150 MW | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref ECU00005141 |
| Kilwinning Battery StorageApatura | Battery | 100 MW | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref ECU00005128 |
| Holmston Road - Battery Storage FacilityField Energy | Battery | 50 MW | Under constructionWho can move it: the developer · earliest connection 2027 (in construction) · planning ref 22/00505/PAN |
| Glaxosmithkline Shewalton RoadGlaxosmithkline | Solar | 20 MW7,200 homes | Under constructionWho can move it: the developer · earliest connection 2027 (in construction) · planning ref 19/00163/PP |
| Wee Minnemoer, Millport - Solar Farm & Battery StorageComsol Energy | Solar | 19 MW6,900 homes | Approved 2 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 23/00114/PP |
| Oldhall Industrial EstateDover Yard | EfW Incineration | 17 MW | Under constructionWho can move it: the developer · earliest connection 2027 (in construction) · planning ref 19/00539/PPM |
| Olympic Business Park, Dundonald - 2 Wind TurbinesThe Farm Energy Partnership | Onshore wind | 8.5 MW7,500 homes | Refused by South Ayrshire Council in 2024Who can move it: South Ayrshire Council · planning ref 24/00063/APP |
| Nethermains - Solar FarmNorth Ayrshire Council | Solar | 7.5 MW2,700 homes | Under constructionWho can move it: the developer · earliest connection 2027 (in construction) · planning ref 23/00317/PP |
| Dunlop Place, Meadowhead Industrial Estate - Wind turbineFarm Energy Company | Onshore wind | 7 MW6,100 homes | Waiting 12 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: North Ayrshire Council · planning ref 25/00334/PP |
| Shewalton Landfill Solar FarmNorth Ayrshire Council | Solar | 5 MW1,800 homes | Under constructionWho can move it: the developer · earliest connection 2027 (in construction) · planning ref 23/00318/PP |
Plus 4 smaller projects — see the full seat page.
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Central Ayrshire | 51 MW | 10 MW | not visible |
| Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock | 654 MW | 874 MW | £18m |
| Kilmarnock and Loudoun | 82 MW | 283 MW | £900k |
| North Ayrshire and Arran | 74 MW | 105 MW | not visible |
Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock next door has 654 MW waiting, more than Central Ayrshire's 51 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.