Dunfermline and Dollar
Dunfermline and Dollar has 36 MW of clean power (almost all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 13,000 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, £3.9m across the constituency's 42,688 homes.
Ranks 164 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kincardine Grid Services Complex - Energy Storage FacilityAmp Energy | Battery | 400 MW | Approved 5 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref ECU00003326 |
| Kincardine Battery StorageGresham House Devco Pipeline Limited | Battery | 342 MW | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref ECU00004987 |
| Nettly Burn Renewable Energy ParkGrupotec Solar UK 4 Ltd | Solar | 80 MW29,000 homes | Approved less than a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref ECU00006007 |
| Craigluscar, Craigluscar Road - Solar Array & Battery StorageLocogen Consulting Limited | Solar | 40 MW15,000 homes | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 24/02548/FULL |
| Dunfermline North - Solar Photovoltaic Array/Battery storageDunfermline Solar Limited (AMPYR Solar Europe) | Solar | 30 MW11,000 homes | Under constructionWho can move it: the developer · earliest connection 2027 (in construction) · planning ref 22/01225/FULL |
| Dunfermline North - Solar Photovoltaic Array/Battery storageDunfermline Solar Limited (AMPYR Solar Europe) | Battery | 20 MW | Under constructionWho can move it: the developer · earliest connection 2027 (in construction) · planning ref 22/01225/FULL |
| Nettly Burn Renewable Energy ParkGrupotec Solar UK 4 Ltd | Battery | 15 MW | Approved less than a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref ECU00006007 |
| Craigluscar, Craigluscar Road - Solar Array & Battery StorageLocogen Consulting Limited | Battery | 9.9 MW | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 24/02548/FULL |
| Babcock Marine Bldg, Wood Road - Solar Photovoltaic ArrayBabcock Marine | Solar | 5.6 MW2,000 homes | Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 23/02089/FULL |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dunfermline and Dollar | 36 MW | 5.1 MW | not visible |
| Stirling and Strathallan | 52 MW | 193 MW | not visible |
| Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy | 70 MW | 39 MW | not visible |
| Alloa and Grangemouth | 1.7 MW | 66 MW | not visible |
| Glenrothes and Mid Fife | 121 MW | 48 MW | not visible |
| Perth and Kinross-shire | 43 MW | 44 MW | not visible |
Glenrothes and Mid Fife next door has 121 MW waiting, more than Dunfermline and Dollar's 36 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.