Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy
Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy has 70 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 25,000 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, £4.1m across the constituency's 44,645 homes. There is also 38 MW of wind running here on the local network. If that gets switched off, no national record shows it.
Ranks 98 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mossmorran Battery StorageGresham House Devco Pipeline | Battery | 300 MW | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref ECU00004985 |
| Gleniston, Auchtertool - Battery Storage FacilityHarmony Energy Limited | Battery | 50 MW | Approved 4 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 22/02323/FULL |
| South Pargillis - Battery StorageInfinis Energy Services Limited | Battery | 42 MW | Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 22/03945/FULL |
| Glenniston Farm, Auchtertool - Solar FarmLocogen Consulting Limited | Solar | 39 MW14,000 homes | Approved 2 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 23/02598/FULL |
| STOR Field 9Capbal | Battery | 37 MW | Cannot connect to the grid until 2029, 3 years after it was approvedWho can move it: the grid operator (NESO) and SP Transmission · earliest connection 2029 · planning ref 18/01583/PPP |
| Parkend Crossgates - Solar Panels & Battery StorageGreentech Projects Holding UK 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 22/03982/FULL |
| Glenniston Farm, Auchtertool - Solar FarmLocogen Consulting Limited | Battery | 10 MW | Approved 2 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 23/02598/FULL |
| Parkend Crossgates - Solar Panels & Battery StorageGreentech Projects Holding UK Limited | Battery | 9 MW | Approved 2 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 22/03982/FULL |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy | 70 MW | 39 MW | not visible |
| Dunfermline and Dollar | 36 MW | 5.1 MW | not visible |
| Glenrothes and Mid Fife | 121 MW | 48 MW | not visible |
Glenrothes and Mid Fife next door has 121 MW waiting, more than Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy's 70 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.