CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Coatbridge and Bellshill
Coatbridge and Bellshill has no significant clean power approved and waiting to be built, and none running. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.9m across the constituency's 42,252 homes.
Ranks 477 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burnbank Street, Greenhill - Battery Storage FacilityRenewable Connections Developments Limited | Battery | 30 MW | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 24/00043/FUL |
| Coatbridge Material Recovery and Renewable Energy FacilityGolder Associates (UK) Ltd/ Shore Energy | Advanced Conversion Technologies | 25 MW | Under constructionWho can move it: the developer · earliest connection 2027 (in construction) · planning ref 09/00675/FUL |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coatbridge and Bellshill | 0.6 MW | 0.2 MW | not visible |
| Hamilton and Clyde Valley | 2.1 MW | 61 MW | £170k |
| Motherwell, Wishaw and Carluke | 80 MW | 215 MW | £2.4m |
| Rutherglen | 1.5 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Glasgow East | 0.5 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Airdrie and Shotts | 24 MW | 82 MW | £2.3m |
Motherwell, Wishaw and Carluke next door has 80 MW waiting, more than Coatbridge and Bellshill's 0.6 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
- 2 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.