Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale
Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale was paid £15m last year to switch off its wind farms, because the wires south were full. That would cover every local household's electricity for 203 days. A further 913 MW of approved clean power (almost all onshore wind) is still waiting to be built here: enough to supply a year's electricity to 773,000 homes. A 500 MW battery approved at Redshaw Battery Energy Storage in 2025 would store power that is currently wasted; it has not been built. A 200 MW battery was refused planning here in 2026; while discharging it could have supplied about 701,000 homes.
Ranks 2 of 650 for clean power approved and not built; 5 of 19 among seats with visible switch-off payments.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coalburn II Energy Storage Facility - Battery Storage FacilityAlcemi Storage Development Limited | Battery | 1,000 MW | Under constructionWho can move it: the developer · earliest connection 2027 (in construction) · planning ref ECU00004698 |
| High Netherfauld House Farm 1, Tower Road - Battery Energy Storage SystemESB (Harker) Limited | Battery | 502 MW | Waiting 15 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: the Scottish Government (it decides big energy projects) · planning ref ECU00006063 |
| Redshaw Battery Energy StorageBayWa r.e. UK Limited | Battery | 500 MW | Still in the grid queue review — no firm connection date yetWho can move it: the grid operator (NESO) · earliest connection 2031 · planning ref ECU00005122 |
| Gretna Green Battery StorageGresham House Devco Pipeline | Battery | 456 MW | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref ECU00004986 |
| Scoop Hill Wind FarmCommunity Wind Power Limited | Onshore wind | 432 MW378,000 homes | Refused by the Scottish Government (it decides big energy projects) in 2026Who can move it: the Scottish Government (it decides big energy projects) · planning ref ECU00000533 |
| Lagrae Battery Energy Storage SystemBuccleuch Estates Limited | Battery | 400 MW | Still in the grid queue review — no firm connection date yetWho can move it: the grid operator (NESO) · earliest connection 2036 · planning ref ECU00004991 |
| Glenmuckloch Pumped Storage HydroBuccleuch Estates | Pumped Storage Hydroelectricity | 400 MW | Approved 10 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref EC00005236 |
| Red Moss - Battery StorageGreen Switch Capital Limited | Battery | 342 MW | Still in the grid queue review — no firm connection date yetWho can move it: the grid operator (NESO) · earliest connection 2030 · planning ref ECU00005043 |
| Faw Side Community Wind FarmCommunity Windpower | Onshore wind | 315 MW275,000 homes | Refused by the Scottish Government (it decides big energy projects) in 2023Who can move it: the Scottish Government (it decides big energy projects) · planning ref ECU00001833 |
| Sanquhar 2 Community Wind FarmCommunity Windpower | Onshore wind | 308 MW269,000 homes | Under constructionWho can move it: the developer · earliest connection 2027 (in construction) · planning ref ECU00001801 |
| Bodinglee Wind FarmBanks Group | Onshore wind | 266 MW233,000 homes | Waiting 3.1 years for a planning decisionWho can move it: the Scottish Government (it decides big energy projects) · planning ref ECU00004839 |
| Hagshaw Energy Cluster – Western Expansion3R Energy Solutions Limited | Battery | 225 MW | Waiting 15 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: the Scottish Government (it decides big energy projects) · earliest connection 2028 · planning ref ECU00004623 |
Plus 70 smaller projects — see the full seat page.
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale | 913 MW | 1,451 MW | £15m |
| Midlothian | 4.2 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Livingston | 118 MW | 116 MW | not visible |
| Edinburgh South West | 0 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Carlisle | 70 MW | 49 MW | not visible |
| Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk | 85 MW | 685 MW | £7.0m |
Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale has more approved-and-waiting capacity than any of its neighbouring seats.
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.