CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Cumbernauld and Kirkintilloch
Cumbernauld and Kirkintilloch has 1.2 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 500 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.7m across the constituency's 40,584 homes.
Ranks 391 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cumbernauld and Kirkintilloch | 1.2 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Airdrie and Shotts | 24 MW | 82 MW | £2.3m |
| Coatbridge and Bellshill | 0.6 MW | 0.2 MW | not visible |
| Glasgow North East | 0.1 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Mid Dunbartonshire | 0 MW | 0.8 MW | not visible |
| Falkirk | 7.5 MW | 26 MW | not visible |
Airdrie and Shotts next door has 24 MW waiting, more than Cumbernauld and Kirkintilloch's 1.2 MW.
The rest of the briefing
- Every approval each project still needs, and which of them the public can see
- Drafted parliamentary questions and letters, filled in with this seat's figures
- 1 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.