East Renfrewshire
East Renfrewshire was paid £4.6m last year to switch off its wind farms, because the wires south were full. That would cover every local household's electricity for 65 days. A further 0.5 MW of approved clean power (all solar) is still waiting to be built here: enough to supply a year's electricity to 200 homes. A 50 MW battery approved at Whitelees Hydrogen Production Facility, Solar Farm & Battery Storage in 2025 would store power that is currently wasted; it has not been built.
Ranks 494 of 650 for clean power approved and not built; 9 of 19 among seats with visible switch-off payments.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whitelees Hydrogen Production Facility, Solar Farm & Battery StorageScottish Power Renewables | Battery | 50 MW | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref ECU00002198 |
| Whitelees Hydrogen Production Facility, Solar Farm & Battery StorageScottish Power Renewables | Solar | 40 MW15,000 homes | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref ECU00002198 |
| Glasgow Road, Eaglesham - Battery Storage FacilityGPC 1137 Limited (Apatura) | Battery | 40 MW | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 2025/0043/TP |
| Dunwan Dam, Eaglesham - Wind FarmGreen Cat Renewables | Onshore wind | 30 MW26,000 homes | Applied in 2025, still waiting for a decisionWho can move it: Glasgow City Council · planning ref 2025/0439/TP |
| Bonnyton, Kirkton Moor Road - Solar PV PanelsAdvance Construction(Scotland) Limited | Solar | 28 MW10,000 homes | Approved less than a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 2025/0405/TP |
| Whitelees Hydrogen Production Facility, Solar Farm & Battery StorageScottish Power Renewables | Hydrogen | 20 MW | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref ECU00002198 |
| Moorshield Wind FarmWind 2 / EDPR | Onshore wind | 15 MW13,000 homes | Cannot connect to the grid until 2026, 2 years after it was approvedWho can move it: the grid operator (NESO) and SP Transmission · earliest connection 2026 · planning ref 2023/0542/TP |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| East Renfrewshire | 0.5 MW | 361 MW | £4.6m |
| Kilmarnock and Loudoun | 82 MW | 283 MW | £900k |
| North Ayrshire and Arran | 74 MW | 105 MW | not visible |
| East Kilbride and Strathaven | 38 MW | 264 MW | £3.1m |
| Glasgow South | 0 MW | 3 MW | not visible |
| Paisley and Renfrewshire South | 0 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
Kilmarnock and Loudoun next door has 82 MW waiting, more than East Renfrewshire's 0.5 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.