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Dundee Central
Dundee Central has 52 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 19,000 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £4.6m across the constituency's 50,447 homes.
Ranks 117 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Craigie Retail Park - Battery Energy StorageWhirlwind Renewables | Battery | 50 MW | Approved 2 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 24/00083/FULM |
| Grange Of Berryhill - Solar FarmUniper UK Limited | Solar | 50 MW18,000 homes | Cleared the grid queue review, so it now has a firm connection dateWho can move it: the grid operator (NESO) · earliest connection 2027 · planning ref 21/00535/FULM |
| Locarno Works, Brown Street - Battery StorageTorridon Developments Limited | Battery | 40 MW | Approved 2 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 23/00862/FULM |
| Dykes Of Gray Road - Solar PV ArrayDundee Renewable Energy Society | Solar | 2 MW700 homes | Approved 4 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 21/00670/FULL |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dundee Central | 52 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Arbroath and Broughty Ferry | 96 MW | 30 MW | not visible |
| Perth and Kinross-shire | 43 MW | 44 MW | not visible |
| Angus and Perthshire Glens | 143 MW | 345 MW | £3.4m |
Angus and Perthshire Glens next door has 143 MW waiting, more than Dundee Central's 52 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.